Response to comment on "Alert, but not alarmed" - a comment on "Towards more accurate HIV testing in sub-Saharan Africa: a multi-site evaluation of HIV RDTs and risk factors for false positives (Kosack et al. 2017)"

Affiliations

¹ Médecins Sans Frontières, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
² Epicentre, Paris, France.
³ Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium.
⁴ Ministry of Health Uganda, Kampala, Uganda.
⁵ Laboratoire National de Reference, Conakry, Guinea.
⁶ National AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Infections Control Programme, Nairobi, Kenya.
⁷ Regional Delegation of Public Health for the Littoral Region, Yaoundé, Cameroon.
⁸ Programme National de Lutte contre le Sida et les IST (PNLS), Bukavu, Democratic Republic of Congo.

Comment

Cara S Kosack et al. J Int AIDS Soc. 2017.

. 2017 Jun 19;20(1):22098.

doi: 10.7448/IAS.20.1.22098.

¹ Médecins Sans Frontières, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
² Epicentre, Paris, France.
³ Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium.
⁴ Ministry of Health Uganda, Kampala, Uganda.
⁵ Laboratoire National de Reference, Conakry, Guinea.
⁶ National AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Infections Control Programme, Nairobi, Kenya.
⁷ Regional Delegation of Public Health for the Littoral Region, Yaoundé, Cameroon.
⁸ Programme National de Lutte contre le Sida et les IST (PNLS), Bukavu, Democratic Republic of Congo.

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Comment on

Towards more accurate HIV testing in sub-Saharan Africa: a multi-site evaluation of HIV RDTs and risk factors for false positives.
Kosack CS, Page AL, Beelaert G, Benson T, Savane A, Ng'ang'a A, Andre B, Zahinda JB, Shanks L, Fransen K. Kosack CS, et al. J Int AIDS Soc. 2017 Mar 24;19(1):21345. doi: 10.7448/IAS.20.1.21345. J Int AIDS Soc. 2017. PMID: 28364560 Free PMC article.
Alert, but not alarmed - a comment on "Towards more accurate HIV testing in sub-Saharan Africa: a multi-site evaluation of HIV RDTs and risk factors for false positives (Kosack et al. 2017)".
Johnson CC, Sands A, Urassa W, Baggaley R. Johnson CC, et al. J Int AIDS Soc. 2017 Jun 19;20(1):22042. doi: 10.7448/IAS.20.1.22042. J Int AIDS Soc. 2017. PMID: 28664683 Free PMC article. No abstract available.

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