Frequency of false positive rapid HIV serologic tests in African men and women receiving PrEP for HIV prevention: implications for programmatic roll-out of biomedical interventions.

Rapid HIV assays are the mainstay of HIV testing globally. Delivery of effective biomedical HIV prevention strategies such as antiretroviral pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) requires periodic HIV testing. Because rapid tests have high (>95%) but imperfect specificity, they are expected to generate...

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Main Authors: Patrick Ndase, Connie Celum, Lara Kidoguchi, Allan Ronald, Kenneth H Fife, Elizabeth Bukusi, Deborah Donnell, Jared M Baeten, Partners PrEP Study Team
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4401675?pdf=render
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