A Finger-stick whole-blood HIV self-test as an HIV screening tool adapted to the general public

PLoS ONE

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2016, Pages

  Prazuck, Thierry ^a   Karon, Stephen ^a   Gubavu, Camelia ^a   Andre, Jerome ^b   Legall, Jean Marie ^c   Bouvet, Elisabeth ^d   Kreplak, Georges ^e   Teglas, Jean Paul ^f   Pialoux, Gilles ^g  

^a Centre Hospitalier Regional   (France)

^b HF Prevention   (France)

^c AIDES   (France)

^d BICHAT HOSPITAL   (France)

^e Hôpital Kremlin Bicêtre ^*  (France)

^f BICÊTRE HOSPITAL   (France)

^g HÔPITAL TENON   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; FINGER STICK WHOLE BLOOD HIV SELF TEST; FRANCE; HELP SEEKING BEHAVIOR; HIV TEST; HOME CARE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION SEEKING; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; NORMAL HUMAN; PERFORMANCE; SATISFACTION; SCREENING TEST; SELF EVALUATION; BLOOD; BLOOD SAMPLING; DEVICES; HIV INFECTIONS; MASS SCREENING; PROCEDURES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SERODIAGNOSIS;

ADULT; AIDS SERODIAGNOSIS; BLOOD SPECIMEN COLLECTION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIAGNOSTIC SELF EVALUATION; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84960455977     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0146755     Document Type: Article

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