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A Novel Community Health Worker Tool Outperforms WHO Clinical Staging for Assessment of Antiretroviral Therapy Eligibility in a Resource-Limited Setting
The accuracy of a novel community health worker antiretroviral therapy eligibility assessment tool was examined in community members in Blantyre, Malawi. Nurses independently performed World Health Organization (WHO) staging and CD4 counts. One hundred ten (55.6%) of 198 HIV-positive participants ha...
Autores principales: | MacPherson, Peter, Lalloo, David G., Thindwa, Deus, Webb, Emily L., Squire, S. Bertel, Chipungu, Geoffrey A., Desmond, Nicola, Makombe, Simon D., Taegtmeyer, Miriam, Choko, Augustine T., Corbett, Elizabeth L. |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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JAIDS Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes
2014
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3966510/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23846567 http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/QAI.0b013e3182a20e74 |
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