Cost implications of HIV retesting for verification in Africa

Arielle Lasry; Mireille B. Kalou; Paul R. Young; Jacqueline Rurangirwa; Bharat Parekh; Stephanie Behel

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0218936

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Cost implications of HIV retesting for verification in Africa

Arielle Lasry ,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: alasry@cdc.gov

Affiliation Division of Global HIV & TB, Center for Global Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0981-8557

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Mireille B. Kalou,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Global HIV & TB, Center for Global Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
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Paul R. Young,

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Global HIV & TB, Center for Global Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5564-9486

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Jacqueline Rurangirwa,

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Global HIV & TB, Center for Global Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
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Bharat Parekh,

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Global HIV & TB, Center for Global Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
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Stephanie Behel

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Global HIV & TB, Center for Global Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
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Cost implications of HIV retesting for verification in Africa

Arielle Lasry,
Mireille B. Kalou,
Paul R. Young,
Jacqueline Rurangirwa,
Bharat Parekh,
Stephanie Behel

Published: July 1, 2019
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0218936

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Correction

Posted by alasry on 15 Jul 2019 at 18:27 GMT

An error in the last phrase, of results section in the abstract incorrectly totals the estimated number of misdiagnoses for Africa. The correct total is 238,721.

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