Use of rapid HIV antibody testing for controlling the HIV pandemic.

摘要: The HIV pandemic continues to expand throughout Africa and southern Asia. Despite recent advances in therapy, the primary means of prevention be identification infected patients through diagnostic testing, provision counseling services reduce transmission. In order facilitate patients, great strides have been made during past 10 years towards development simple, rapid antibody assays that require no specialized equipment, are relatively stable at ambient temperatures can easily performed by people who do not a laboratory background. Evaluations these shown when used multiple assay algorithm strategies, they perform comparably with current laboratory-based methods. Effective global implementation tests will concerted effort from public private health agencies, however, expanding use provide significant opportunity slow devastating ...