Scale-up of Routine Viral Load Testing in Resource-Poor Settings: Current and Future Implementation Challenges.

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Published in Clin Infect Dis on January 06, 2016

Authors

Teri Roberts1, Jennifer Cohn1, Kimberly Bonner1, Sally Hargreaves2

Author Affiliations

1: Médecins Sans Frontières, Geneva, Switzerland.
2: International Health Unit, Department of Medicine, Section of Infectious Diseases and Immunity, Imperial College London, United Kingdom.

Associated clinical trials:

Rapid HIV Viral Load Monitoring in High Risk Patients In Uganda (RAPID-VL) | NCT03553693

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