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HIV Self-testing and the Missing Linkage

Rochelle Walensky and Ingrid Bassett discuss new research in <I>PLoS Medicine</I> that assessed the feasibility of home-based oral HIV self-testing in Malawi, and suggest that linkage to care must be demonstrated before the success of oral self-testing can be determined.

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Autores principales: Walensky, Rochelle P., Bassett, Ingrid V.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3186809/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21990965
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001101
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spelling pubmed-31868092011-10-11 HIV Self-testing and the Missing Linkage Walensky, Rochelle P. Bassett, Ingrid V. PLoS Med Perspective Rochelle Walensky and Ingrid Bassett discuss new research in <I>PLoS Medicine</I> that assessed the feasibility of home-based oral HIV self-testing in Malawi, and suggest that linkage to care must be demonstrated before the success of oral self-testing can be determined. Public Library of Science 2011-10-04 /pmc/articles/PMC3186809/ /pubmed/21990965 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001101 Text en Walensky, Bassett. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly credited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3186809/
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