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Estimation of benzathine penicillin G demand for congenital syphilis elimination with adoption of dual HIV/syphilis rapid diagnostic tests in eleven high burden countries

BACKGROUND: WHO recommends use of rapid dual HIV/syphilis tests for screening pregnant women (PW) during antenatal care to prevent mother-to-child transmission. Scale-up of testing implies a need to accurately forecast and procure benzathine penicillin (BPG) to treat the additionally identified PW w...

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Autores principales: Shah, Sapan, Garg, Surbhi, Heath, Katherine, Ofili, Obiageli, Bansal, Yashika, Seghers, Frederic, Storey, Andrew, Taylor, Melanie
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8376004/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34411167
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0256400