Towards More Accurate HIV Testing in Sub-Saharan Africa: a Multi-Site Evaluation of HIV RDTs and Risk Factors For False Positives
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Kosack, CSPage, AL
Beelaert, G
Benson, T
Savane, A
Ng'ang'a, A
Andre, B
Zahinda, JP
Shanks, L
Fransen, K
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2017-03-22Submitted date
2017-04-12
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Although individual HIV rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) show good performance in evaluations conducted by WHO, reports from several African countries highlight potentially significant performance issues. Despite widespread use of RDTs for HIV diagnosis in resource-constrained settings, there has been no systematic, head-to-head evaluation of their accuracy with specimens from diverse settings across sub-Saharan Africa. We conducted a standardized, centralized evaluation of eight HIV RDTs and two simple confirmatory assays at a WHO collaborating centre for evaluation of HIV diagnostics using specimens from six sites in five sub-Saharan African countries.Publisher
International AIDS SocietyPubMed ID
28364560Language
enISSN
1758-2652ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.7448/IAS.20.1.21345
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