Pooling sera to reduce the cost of HIV surveillance: A feasibility study in a rural Kenyan district

Tropical Medicine and International Health

Volumn 3, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 747-750

  Verstraeten, T ^a,d   Farah, B ^b   Duchateau, L ^c   Matu, R ^b  

^a Kenya National AIDS and STI Control Programme   (Kenya)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI   (Kenya)

^c EORTC DATA CENTER   (Belgium)

^d University of Nairobi ^*  (Belgium)

Author keywords

Accuracy; Applicability; Cost reduction; HIV; Pooling; Seroprevalence

Indexed keywords

HEALTH CARE; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; MONITORING; RURAL POPULATION;

ARTICLE; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COST CONTROL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; KENYA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; SERODIAGNOSIS;

BLOOD SPECIMEN COLLECTION; COST CONTROL; COST SAVINGS; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HIV SEROPREVALENCE; HUMANS; KENYA; MASS SCREENING; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RURAL HEALTH; SENTINEL SURVEILLANCE; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES;

KENYA;

HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS;

EID: 0031708661     PISSN: 13602276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3156.1998.00293.x     Document Type: Article

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