Clinical Evaluation of an Affordable Qualitative Viral Failure Assay for HIV Using Dried Blood Spots in Uganda

• Sheila N. Balinda ,

  * E-mail: sbalinda@jcrc.org.ug; sbalinda@gmail.com

  Affiliation Joint Clinical Research Center, P.O. Box 10005, Kampala, Uganda

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• Pascale Ondoa,

  Affiliation Amsterdam Institute for Global Health and Development, Department of Global Health, Academic medical Center, Trinity C Building, Pietersbergweg 17, 1105 BM, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

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• Ekwaro A. Obuku,

  Affiliation Joint Clinical Research Center, P.O. Box 10005, Kampala, Uganda

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• Aletta Kliphuis,

  Affiliation PharmAccess International, Amsterdam, Trinity Building C Pietersbergweg 17, 1105 BM, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

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• Isaac Egau,

  Affiliation Joint Clinical Research Center, P.O. Box 10005, Kampala, Uganda

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• Michelle Bronze,

  Affiliation Wits Health Consortium, University of the Witwatersrand, 1 Jan Smuts Avenue, Braamfontein 2000, Johannesburg, South Africa

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• Lordwin Kasambula,

  Affiliation Joint Clinical Research Center, P.O. Box 10005, Kampala, Uganda

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• Rob Schuurman,

  Affiliation University Medical Centre Utrecht, P.O. Box 80125, 3508 TC, Utrecht, the Netherlands

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• Nicole Spieker,

  Affiliation PharmAccess International, Amsterdam, Trinity Building C Pietersbergweg 17, 1105 BM, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

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• Tobias F. Rinke de Wit,

  Affiliation Amsterdam Institute for Global Health and Development, Department of Global Health, Academic medical Center, Trinity C Building, Pietersbergweg 17, 1105 BM, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

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• Cissy Kityo,

  Affiliation Joint Clinical Research Center, P.O. Box 10005, Kampala, Uganda

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• ART–A consortium

  ¶Membership of the ART–A consortium is provided in the Acknowledgments.

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