COVID-19 Lockdowns: Impact on Facility-Based HIV Testing and the Case for the Scaling Up of Home-Based Testing Services in Sub-Saharan Africa

Affiliations

¹ School of Public Health, University of Western Cape, Cape Town, 7535, South Africa.
² Department of Medical Laboratory Sciences, College of Health Sciences, University of Zimbabwe, Avondale, Harare, Zimbabwe.
³ Department of Public Health Medicine, School of Nursing and Public Health, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, 4001, South Africa. anthonydzina@gmail.com.

Editorial

Malizgani Mhango et al. AIDS Behav. 2020 Nov.

. 2020 Nov;24(11):3014-3016.

doi: 10.1007/s10461-020-02939-6.

¹ School of Public Health, University of Western Cape, Cape Town, 7535, South Africa.
² Department of Medical Laboratory Sciences, College of Health Sciences, University of Zimbabwe, Avondale, Harare, Zimbabwe.
³ Department of Public Health Medicine, School of Nursing and Public Health, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, 4001, South Africa. anthonydzina@gmail.com.

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