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Mobile, Population-wide, Hybrid HIV Testing Strategy Increases Number of Children Tested in Rural Kenya and Uganda

Year: 2018

Type: article

Abstract: Efficient ways to identify children with HIV in the context of universal test-and-treat policies are needed. We evaluated a hybrid testing strategy combining mobile community and home-based HIV testing in 87,700 children across 32 rural communities in 2 East African countries. This approach resulted in 81% testing coverage of at-risk children and doubled the number of children diagnosed with HIV.

Source: The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal

DOI: 10.1097/inf.0000000000002142

Authors: James Ayieko, Gabriel Chamie, Laura Balzer, Dalsone Kwarisiima, Jane Kabami, Norton Sang, Craig R. Cohen, Elizabeth A. Bukusi, Tamara D. Clark, Albert Plenty, Edwin D. Charlebois, Maya Petersen, Moses Kamya, Diane V. Havlir, Theodore Ruel

Institutions: Kenya Medical Research Institute, University of California, San Francisco, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Makerere University, University of California, Berkeley

Language: English

Topic: HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions

Subfield: Infectious Diseases

Field: Medicine

Domain: Health Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: green

Funders: U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

Awards: G2548217053, G3534112700, G4553935269, G650174051, Advancing Clinical Therapeutics Globally for HIV/AIDS and Other Infections

OpenAlex ID: W2889995230

FWCI: 0.864

Cites: 6

Cited by: 8

Related to: 10