HIV rapid diagnostic testing by lay providers in a key population-led health service programme in Thailand
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HIV rapid diagnostic testing by lay providers in a key population-led health service programme in Thailand
Introduction: Rapid diagnostic testing (RDT) for HIV has a quick turn-around time, which increases the proportion of people testing who receive their result. HIV RDT in Thailand has traditionally been performed only by medical technologists (MTs), which is a barrier to its being scaled up. We evaluated the performance of HIV RDT conducted by trained lay providers who were members of, or worked ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Virus Eradication
سال: 2018
ISSN: 2055-6640
DOI: 10.1016/s2055-6640(20)30235-1