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Assessment of the Potential Impact and Cost-effectiveness of Self-Testing for HIV in Low-Income Countries.

Cambiano, V; Ford, D; Mabugu, T; Napierala Mavedzenge, S; Miners, A; Mugurungi, O; Nakagawa, F; ... Phillips, A; + view all (2015) Assessment of the Potential Impact and Cost-effectiveness of Self-Testing for HIV in Low-Income Countries. Journal of Infectious Diseases , 212 (4) pp. 570-577. 10.1093/infdis/jiv040. Green open access

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Abstract

Studies have demonstrated that self-testing for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is highly acceptable among individuals and could allow cost savings, compared with provider-delivered HIV testing and counseling (PHTC), although the longer-term population-level effects are uncertain. We evaluated the cost-effectiveness of introducing self-testing in 2015 over a 20-year time frame in a country such as Zimbabwe.

Type: Article
Title: Assessment of the Potential Impact and Cost-effectiveness of Self-Testing for HIV in Low-Income Countries.
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1093/infdis/jiv040
Publisher version: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/infdis/jiv040
Language: English
Additional information: Copyright © The Author 2015. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Infectious Diseases SocietyofAmerica. This is anOpen Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs licence (http:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial reproduction and distribution of the work, in any medium, provided the original work is not altered or transformed in any way, and that the work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com. DOI: 10.1093/infdis/jiv040
Keywords: HIV, cost-effectiveness, diagnostic, mathematical modeling, self-testing
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > Inst of Clinical Trials and Methodology
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > Inst of Clinical Trials and Methodology > MRC Clinical Trials Unit at UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > Institute for Global Health
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > Institute for Global Health > Infection and Population Health
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1462820
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