ArticleJournal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999)2013
Pooled HIV-1 viral load testing using dried blood spots to reduce the cost of monitoring antiretroviral treatment in a resource-limited setting.
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- Improved HIV-1 Viral Load Monitoring Capacity Using Pooled Testing With Marker-Assisted Deconvolution.Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999) · 2017Pooled it
- Implementation of pooled testing to increase access to routine viral load monitoring for people living with HIV on antiretroviral therapy.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Go Where the Virus Is: An HIV Micro-epidemic Control Approach to Stop HIV Transmission.Global health, science and practice · 2020Article
- Pooled testing: A tool to increase efficiency of infant HIV diagnosis and virological monitoring.African journal of laboratory medicine · 2020Review
- Rates of HIV-1 virological suppression and patterns of acquired drug resistance among fisherfolk on first-line antiretroviral therapy in Uganda.The Journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy · 2019Article
- Point-of-care viral load monitoring: outcomes from a decentralized HIV programme in Malawi.Journal of the International AIDS Society · 2019Article
- Pooled PCR testing of dried blood spots for infant HIV diagnosis is cost efficient and accurate.BMC infectious diseases · 2019Article
- Interferon-γ-Inducible Protein 10 (IP-10) as a Screening Tool to Optimize Human Immunodeficiency Virus RNA Monitoring in Resource-Limited Settings.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2017Article
- Comprehensiveness of HIV care provided at global HIV treatment sites in the IeDEA consortium: 2009 and 2014.Journal of the International AIDS Society · 2017Article
- Predicting resistance as indicator for need to switch from first-line antiretroviral therapy among patients with elevated viral loads: development of a risk score algorithm.BMC infectious diseases · 2016Article
- Scale-up of Routine Viral Load Testing in Resource-Poor Settings: Current and Future Implementation Challenges.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2016Article
- Cost Evaluation of Dried Blood Spot Home Sampling as Compared to Conventional Sampling for Therapeutic Drug Monitoring in Children.PloS one · 2016Article
- Pooling Bio-Specimens in the Presence of Measurement Error and Non-Linearity in Dose-Response: Simulation Study in the Context of a Birth Cohort Investigating Risk Factors for Autism Spectrum Disorders.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2015Article
- Pooled Nucleic Acid Testing to Detect Antiretroviral Treatment Failure in HIV-Infected Patients in Mozambique.Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999) · 2015Article
- Finger Prick Dried Blood Spots for HIV Viral Load Measurement in Field Conditions in Zimbabwe.PloS one · 2015Article
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- Emerging antiretroviral drug resistance in sub-Saharan Africa: novel affordable technologies are needed to provide resistance testing for individual and public health benefits.AIDS (London, England) · 2014Article
- Prospective evaluation of diagnostic accuracy of dried blood spots from finger prick samples for determination of HIV-1 load with the NucliSENS Easy-Q HIV-1 version 2.0 assay in Malawi.Journal of clinical microbiology · 2014Article
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Abstract
Rollout of routine HIV-1 viral load monitoring is hampered by high costs and logistical difficulties associated with sample collection and transport. New strategies are needed to overcome these constraints. Dried blood spots from finger pricks have been shown to be more practical than the use of plasma specimens, and pooling strategies using plasma specimens have been demonstrated to be an efficient method to reduce costs. This study found that combination of finger-prick dried blood spots and a pooling strategy is a feasible and efficient option to reduce costs, while maintaining accuracy in the context of a district hospital in Malawi.
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