Evaluation of the practicability and virological performance of finger-stick whole-blood HIV self-testing in French-speaking sub-Saharan Africa.

Opportunities for HIV testing could be enhanced by offering HIV self-testing (HIVST) in populations that fear stigma and discrimination when accessing conventional HIV counselling and testing in health care facilities. Field experience with HIVST has not yet been reported in French-speaking African...

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Main Authors: Serge Tonen-Wolyec, Salomon Batina-Agasa, Jérémie Muwonga, Franck Fwamba N'kulu, Ralph-Sydney Mboumba Bouassa, Laurent Bélec
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5761859?pdf=render