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SUBMITTER: Phillips AN
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5047406 | biostudies-other | 2016 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Open forum infectious diseases 20160729 3
Point-of-care viral load tests are being developed to monitor patients on antiretroviral therapy (ART) in sub-Saharan Africa. Test design involves trade-offs between test attributes, including accuracy, complexity, robustness, and cost. We used a model of the human immunodeficiency virus epidemic and ART program in Zimbabwe and found that the attributes of a viral load testing approach that are most influential for cost effectiveness are avoidance of a high proportion of failed tests or results ...[more]