Journal article
Impact and cost-effectiveness of point-of-care CD4 testing on the HIV epidemic in South Africa
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Rapid diagnostic tools have been shown to improve linkage of patients to care. In the context of infectious diseases, assessing the impact and cost-effectiveness of such tools at the population level, accounting for both direct and indirect effects, is key to informing adoption of these tools. Point-of-care (POC) CD4 testing has been shown to be highly effective in increasing the proportion of HIV positive patients who initiate ART. We assess the impact and cost-effectiveness of introducing P...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- 10.1371/journal.pone.0158303
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+ Office of the United States Global AIDS Coordinator
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Fraser, C
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HPTN 071
+ Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
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Fraser, C
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HPTN 071
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Rockefeller Foundation
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Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- Public Library of Science Publisher's website
- Journal:
- PLoS ONE Journal website
- Volume:
- 11
- Issue:
- 7
- Publication date:
- 2016-07-01
- Acceptance date:
- 2016-06-13
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1932-6203
- Source identifiers:
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675658
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- English
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- Pubs id:
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pubs:675658
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uuid:8ce6f606-9d47-442f-932b-a6e4ce4bf19b
- Local pid:
- pubs:675658
- Deposit date:
- 2017-02-15
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- Copyright holder:
- Heffernan et al
- Copyright date:
- 2016
- Notes:
- © 2016 Heffernan et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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