Viewpoint: Why do we need a point-of-care CD4 test for low-income countries?
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Médecins sans Frontières, Operational Centre Brussels; CD4 Initiative, Institute for Global Health, UK; Clinton Health Access Initiative, Liberia; Department of HIV/AIDS, Ministry of Health, Malawi; Management Sciences for Health, Malawi; International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, France; London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UKIssue Date
2010-11-02
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In this paper, we discuss the reasons why we urgently need a point-of-care (POC) CD4 test, elaborate the problems we have experienced with the current technology which hampers CD4-count coverage and highlight the ideal characteristics of a universal CD4 POC test. It is high-time that CD4 technology is simplified and adapted for wider use in low-income countries to change the current paradigm of restricted access once and for all.PubMed ID
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1365-3156ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1111/j.1365-3156.2010.02669.x
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