ArticlePLoS medicine2021
Lay testing cadres and point-of-care diagnostic tests for HIV and other diseases: An essential combination in health service delivery.
Article in PLoS medicine, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.
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5 citing papers in PubMed.
- Task shifting of point-of-care testing to lay health workers in rural primary health facilities in Nsanje, Malawi.Global health action · 2026Article
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- Enhancing tuberculosis (TB) case detection among hospitalized patients through lay health worker led screening: a before-and-after study in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Task sharing for point-of-care testing: Review of national health policies and implementation landscape in 19 African countries.PLOS global public health · 2025Article
- Monitored Implementation of COVID-19 Rapid Antigen Screening at Taxi Ranks in Johannesburg, South Africa.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
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Abstract
Zibusiso Ndlovu and Tom Ellman discuss the potential value of task sharing in provision of testing for HIV and other infectious diseases.
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