What is it about?
This paper makes it clearer that inconclusive rapid HIV results in an adult from sub-Saharan Africa should raise concern about likely HIV infection if the tested person recently engaged in risky sexual behavior. This is regardless of whether HIV infection is a common problem or not in his/her social environment.
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Why is it important?
In poor African settings where the cost of fancy HIV tests is often not affordable, it is useful to know that readily available rapid HIV tests can easily help to inform persons with inconclusive HIV results that they are high risk contacts for spreading HIV infection, especially if they have risky sexual habits. This awareness should boost public health efforts to prevent the spread of HIV infection.
Perspectives
It is satisfying to be a participant in this research experience which successfully negotiated available low-end technology to achieve a patient-oriented evidence with promise for a direct impact on the choices of persons living in resource limited areas of sub-Saharan Africa with the threat of HIV infection.
Adedotun Adetunji
University College Hospital, Ibadan
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This page is a summary of: Discordant rapid HIV tests: lessons from a low-resource community, HIV Medicine, July 2017, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/hiv.12541.
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