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Performance of point-of-care birth HIV testing in primary health care clinics: An observational cohort study
BACKGROUND: Failure to timely diagnose HIV in infants is a major barrier for scaling-up paediatric antiretroviral treatment (ART). WHO recommends birth testing for earlier diagnosis and to improve test coverage, but current diagnosis takes 2–3 weeks to complete, thereby limiting the ability of care...
Autores principales: | Meggi, Bindiya, Vojnov, Lara, Mabunda, Nedio, Vubil, Adolfo, Zitha, Alcina, Tobaiwa, Ocean, Mudenyanga, Chishamiso, Mutsaka, Dadirayi, Bollinger, Timothy, Loquiha, Osvaldo, Peter, Trevor F., Jani, Ilesh V. |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Public Library of Science
2018
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6005575/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29912987 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0198344 |
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