More and Better Information to Tackle HIV Epidemics: Towards Improved HIV Incidence Assays

Timothy Hallett and colleagues from the Incidence Assay Critical Path Working Group argue that a quick, easy, valid, and precise method of estimating HIV incidence in populations is needed, and discuss several new technologies to address this need.

• Publication year

  2011

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  PLoS Medicine

• Publication date

  2011-06-01

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  Medicine

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  DOI 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001045PMID 21731474PMCID 3114871
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