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Uptake, Accuracy, Safety, and Linkage into Care over Two Years of Promoting Annual Self-Testing for HIV in Blantyre, Malawi: A Community-Based Prospective Study

BACKGROUND: Home-based HIV testing and counselling (HTC) achieves high uptake, but is difficult and expensive to implement and sustain. We investigated a novel alternative based on HIV self-testing (HIVST). The aim was to evaluate the uptake of testing, accuracy, linkage into care, and health outcom...

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Autores principales:	Choko, Augustine T., MacPherson, Peter, Webb, Emily L., Willey, Barbara A., Feasy, Helena, Sambakunsi, Rodrick, Mdolo, Aaron, Makombe, Simon D., Desmond, Nicola, Hayes, Richard, Maheswaran, Hendramoorthy, Corbett, Elizabeth L.
Formato:	Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	Public Library of Science 2015
Materias:	Research Article
Acceso en línea:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4562710/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26348035 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001873

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