Implications for HIV testing policy derived from combining data on voluntary confidential testing with viral sequences and serological analyses
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Implications for HIV testing policy derived from combining data on voluntary confidential testing with viral sequences and serological analyses.
OBJECTIVES Laboratory, clinical and sequence-based data were combined to assess the differential uptake of voluntary confidential HIV testing (VCT) according to risk and explore the occurrence of HIV transmission from individuals with recently acquired HIV infection, before the diagnostic opportunity. METHODS Between 1999 and 2002, nearly 30,000 anonymous tests for previously undiagnosed HIV ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Sexually Transmitted Infections
سال: 2009
ISSN: 1368-4973
DOI: 10.1136/sti.2008.031831