Scaling Down to Scale Up: A Health Economic Analysis of Integrating Point-of-Care Syphilis Testing into Antenatal Care in Zambia during Pilot and National Rollout Implementation

Katharine D. Shelley; Éimhín M. Ansbro; Alexander Tshaka Ncube; Sedona Sweeney; Colette Fleischer; Grace Tembo Mumba; Michelle M. Gill; Susan Strasser; Rosanna W. Peeling; Fern Terris-Prestholt

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0125675

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Scaling Down to Scale Up: A Health Economic Analysis of Integrating Point-of-Care Syphilis Testing into Antenatal Care in Zambia during Pilot and National Rollout Implementation

Katharine D. Shelley ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Katharine D. Shelley, Éimhín M. Ansbro

* E-mail: kshelle7@jhu.edu

Current address: Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, George Washington University School of Public Health, Washington, DC, United States of America
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Éimhín M. Ansbro ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Katharine D. Shelley, Éimhín M. Ansbro

Affiliation Department of Clinical Research, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom
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Alexander Tshaka Ncube,

Affiliation Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation, Lusaka, Zambia
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Sedona Sweeney,

Affiliation Department of Global Health and Development, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom
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Colette Fleischer,

Current address: AME International, Vienna, Austria

Affiliation Department of Global Health and Development, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom
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Grace Tembo Mumba,

Affiliation HIV/AIDS STI Programme, Ministry of Health, Lusaka, Zambia
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Michelle M. Gill,

Affiliation Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation, Washington, DC, United States of America
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Susan Strasser,

Current address: ICAP program, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America

Affiliation Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation, Lusaka, Zambia
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Rosanna W. Peeling,

Affiliation Department of Clinical Research, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom
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Fern Terris-Prestholt

Affiliation Department of Global Health and Development, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom
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Scaling Down to Scale Up: A Health Economic Analysis of Integrating Point-of-Care Syphilis Testing into Antenatal Care in Zambia during Pilot and National Rollout Implementation

Katharine D. Shelley,
Éimhín M. Ansbro,
Alexander Tshaka Ncube,
Sedona Sweeney,
Colette Fleischer,
Grace Tembo Mumba,
Michelle M. Gill,
Susan Strasser,
Rosanna W. Peeling,
Fern Terris-Prestholt

Published: May 13, 2015
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0125675

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