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. 2022 Apr;10(4):e465-e466.
doi: 10.1016/S2214-109X(22)00002-X. Epub 2022 Feb 2.

Considerations for simultaneous testing of COVID-19 and tuberculosis in high-burden countries

Morten Ruhwald  1 , Emma Hannay  2 , Sanjay Sarin  2 , Kekeletso Kao  2 , Rajashree Sen  3 , Sarabjit Chadha  3
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Considerations for simultaneous testing of COVID-19 and tuberculosis in high-burden countries

Morten Ruhwald et al. Lancet Glob Health. 2022 Apr.
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Conflict of interest statement

All authors are employees of FIND. FIND received grants from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria for the simultaneous testing efforts from which this Comment draws the lessons learned. FIND is co-convenor of the Access to COVID-19 Tools Accelerator Diagnostics Pillar along with The Global Fund. We declare no other competing interests. Writing support was provided by Talya Underwood of Anthos Communications, UK, and was funded by FIND according to Good Publication Practice guidelines.

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