False positive HIV diagnoses in resource limited settings: operational lessons learned for HIV programmes.

False positive HIV diagnoses in resource limited settings: operational lessons learned for HIV programmes.

BACKGROUND: Access to HIV diagnosis is life-saving; however the use of rapid diagnostic tests in combination is vulnerable to wrongly diagnosing HIV infection when both screening tests give a false positive result. Misclassification of HIV patients can also occur due to poor quality control, adminis...

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Main Authors: Leslie Shanks, Derryck Klarkowski, Daniel P O'Brien
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3603939?pdf=render

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