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Accurate dried blood spots collection in the community using non-medically trained personnel could support scaling up routine viral load testing in resource limited settings

Regular plasma HIV-RNA testing for persons living with HIV on antiretroviral therapy (ART) is now the global standard, but as many as 60% of persons in Africa today on ART do not have access to standard laboratory HIV-RNA assays. As a result, patients in Zambia often receive treatment without any me...

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Autores principales: Sikombe, Kombatende, Hantuba, Cardinal, Musukuma, Kalo, Sharma, Anjali, Padian, Nancy, Holmes, Charles, Czaicki, Nancy, Simbeza, Sandra, Somwe, Paul, Bolton-Moore, Carolyn, Sikazwe, Izukanji, Geng, Elvin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6797100/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31622394
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0223573