Editorial Commentary:Viral Load Testing in Resource‐Limited Settings

Viral load testing in resource-limited settings.

Scale-up of Routine Viral Load Testing in Resource-Poor Settings: Current and Future Implementation Challenges

Despite immense progress in antiretroviral therapy (ART) scale-up, many people still lack access to basic standards of care, with our ability to meet the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS 90-90-90 treatment targets for HIV/AIDS dependent on dramatic improvements in diagnostics. The World Health Organization recommends routine monitoring of ART effectiveness using viral load (VL) testin...

Patient needs and point-of-care requirements for HIV load testing in resource-limited settings.

Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) is an international, independent medical nongovernmental organization. One way in which MSF acts to improve patient care is to assist in the identification and development of adapted and appropriate tools for use in resource-limited settings. One strategy to achieve this goal is through active collaborations with scientists and developers, to make some of the fiel...

Measuring Cognitive Load in Embodied Learning Settings

In recent years, research on embodied cognition has inspired a number of studies on multimedia learning and instructional psychology. However, in contrast to traditional research on education and multimedia learning, studies on embodied learning (i.e., focusing on bodily action and perception in the context of education) in some cases pose new problems for the measurement of cognitive load. Thi...

Editorial: Software testing in the United Kingdom

This special issue of STVR contains extended versions of three papers which appeared at SoftTest II: The Second U.K. Workshop on Software Testing Research, held at the University of York on the 4th and 5th of September 2003. The workshop attracted 21 paper submissions, of which 17 were accepted. All papers received at least three reviews from an international programme committee. The General Ch...