It takes more than a machine: A pilot feasibility study of point-of-care HIV-1 viral load testing at a lower-level health center in rural western Uganda.

• Main Authors: Ross M Boyce (Author), Ronnie Ndizeye (Author), Herbert Ngelese (Author), Emmanuel Baguma (Author), Bwambale Shem (Author), Rebecca J Rubinstein (Author), Emmanuel Rockwell (Author), Sarah C Lotspeich (Author), Bonnie E Shook-Sa (Author), Moses Ntaro (Author), Dan Nyehangane (Author), David A Wohl (Author), Mark J Siedner (Author), Edgar M Mulogo (Author)
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• 出版: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2023-01-01T00:00:00Z.
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Barriers continue to limit access to viral load (VL) monitoring across sub-Saharan Africa adversely impacting control of the HIV epidemic. The objective of this study was to determine whether the systems and processes required to realize the potential of rapid molecular technology are available at a...