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SUBMITTER: Lakoh S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6760048 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Lakoh Sulaiman S Firima Emmanuel E Jiba Darlinda F DF Sesay Momodu M Conteh Mariama Marco MM Deen Gibrilla Fadlu GF
BMC research notes 20190924 1
<h4>Objective</h4>Despite a 1.5% National HIV prevalence, less than 40% of people living with HIV in Sierra Leone know their status. Limited activities on testing partners of HIV patients could be contributory to this substantial unawareness of HIV status. We carried out a retrospective study aimed at assessing partner testing and HIV prevalence among adults (≥ 15 years) tested using Determine™ and SD Bioline as recorded in the HIV testing registers from January to December 2017 at Connaught Hos ...[more]