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WHO strongly recommends CD4 testing to identify advanced HIV disease

At presentation, all children living with HIV younger than five years should be considered as having advanced HIV disease ...
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Evaluation of Rapid Testing Algorithms for Venue-based Anonymous HIV Testing among Non-HIV-Positive Men Who Have Sex with Men, National HIV Behavioral Surveillance (NHBS), 2017

HIV rapid testing algorithms (RTAs) using any two orthogonal rapid tests (RTs) allow for on-site confirmation of infection. RTs vary in performance characteristics therefore the selection of RTs in an ...
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Advanced White Blood Cell Testing To Identify HIV Disease Strongly Recommended By WHO

CD4 tests is strongly recommended as the preferred method to identify advanced HIV disease among people living with HIV, said the World Health Organization (WHO). The new recommendation is part of the ...
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Ministry to roll out new HIV testing strategy next month

The debate on the quality and state of HIV/AIDS testing kits procured by the government is getting even more wriggly. The Ministry of Health now says it has not received an advisory from the World ...
Medscape

Limitations of Rapid Testing

The performance characteristics of a sequential rapid HIV-testing algorithm were poorer than anticipated in a Ugandan study, perhaps due to false-positive results from tests with "faint bands." Rapid ...