Point‐of‐care viral load monitoring: outcomes from a decentralized HIV programme in Malawi

Routinely monitoring the HIV viral load (VL) of people living with HIV (PLHIV) on anti‐retroviral therapy (ART) facilitates intensive adherence counselling and faster ART regimen switch when treatment failure is indicated. Yet standard VL‐testing in centralized laboratories can be time‐intensive and logistically difficult in low‐resource settings. This paper evaluates the outcomes of the first four years of routine VL‐monitoring using Point‐of‐Care technology, implemented by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in rural clinics in Malawi.

• Publication year

  2019

• Venue

  Journal of the International AIDS Society

• Publication date

  2019-08-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine

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  DOI 10.1002/jia2.25387PMID 31441242PMCID 6706700
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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