WHO Technical And Operational Considerations For Implementing HIV Viral Load Testing
This publication provides high-level guidance on implementing and scaling up HIV viral load (VL) testing programmes for health ministries and implementation partners, using a three
WHO What’s New In Treatment Monitoring: Viral Load And CD4 Testing
Treatment initiation ART should be initiated in all children, adolescents, pregnant and breastfeeding women and adults living with HIV, regardless of WHO clinical stage and at any
A Proposed Framework for the Implementation of Early Infant Diagnosis Point-of-Care
To reduce morbidity and mortality among HIV-infected children and close the treatment gap for HIV-infected children, there is an urgent need to evaluate existing programmatic and l
Significant Patient Impact Observed Upon Implementation of Point-of-Care Early Infant Diagnosis Technologies in an Observational Study in Malawi
In this Malawi study, ART initiation rates were significantly improved with the implementation of same-day POC EID testing compared with referred, longer-turnaround laboratory-base
Effect of point-of-care early infant diagnosis on antiretroviral therapy initiation and retention of patients: a cluster-randomised trial
In this cluster-randomized controlled trial, Jani et al. evaluated the effect of point-of-care (POC) early infant HIV testing on rates of antiretroviral therapy (ART) initiation an
Multidisease testing for HIV and TB using the GeneXpert platform: A feasibility study in rural Zimbabwe
Zibusiso Ndlovu, Epidemiologist and Laboratory Advisor with Médecins Sans Frontières, and colleagues demonstrated the feasibility of the GeneXpert multi-disease testing at the ne
June 2018 LabCoP ECHO Session: Technical Area Essential Approaches: New Innovations with Viral Load
This four-step overview of Laboratory African Regional Collaborative (LARC) was presented by Patricia Riley from the International Laboratory Branch of the US Centers for Disease C
Pioneering New Diagnostics: Addressing Challenges and Implications for Point-of-Care Testing in African Settings
Point-of-Care Testing: Why is it important? Imagine yourself in a city at the centre of one of the world’s deadliest disease outbreaks. You watch as your friends and relatives ar
Cepheid Receives World Health Organization Pre-Qualification of Xpert HIV-1 Viral Load Test
Broadens access to HIV viral load monitoring On July 20, 2017, Cepheid received World Health Organization (WHO) prequalification for its Xpert® HIV-1 Viral Load (VL) test. The Xpe
The performance of BD FACSPresto™ forCD4 T-cell count, CD4% and hemoglobin concentration test in Ethiopia
Gebremicael, et al. report results from a technical evaluation of the BD FACSPresto Point-of-Care CD4 platform in Ethiopia using capillary and venous blood samples. Researchers fou