Accurate dried blood spots collection in the community using non-medically trained personnel could support scaling up routine viral load testing in resource limited settings

• Kombatende Sikombe ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: Kombatende.sikombe@cidrz.org

  Affiliation Centre for Infectious Diseases Research in Zambia, Lusaka, Zambia

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8187-8661

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• Cardinal Hantuba,

  Roles Data curation, Project administration

  Affiliation Centre for Infectious Diseases Research in Zambia, Lusaka, Zambia

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• Kalo Musukuma,

  Roles Data curation, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Centre for Infectious Diseases Research in Zambia, Lusaka, Zambia

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3620-6065

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• Anjali Sharma,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centre for Infectious Diseases Research in Zambia, Lusaka, Zambia

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• Nancy Padian,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Epidemiology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America

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• Charles Holmes,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Division of Infectious Diseases, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Center for Global Health and Quality, Georgetown University, Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America

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• Nancy Czaicki,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Centre for Infectious Diseases Research in Zambia, Lusaka, Zambia, Division of HIV, Infectious Diseases and Global Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital, San Francisco, California, United States of America

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• Sandra Simbeza,

  Roles Project administration, Supervision

  Affiliation Centre for Infectious Diseases Research in Zambia, Lusaka, Zambia

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• Paul Somwe,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Centre for Infectious Diseases Research in Zambia, Lusaka, Zambia

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• Carolyn Bolton-Moore,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Centre for Infectious Diseases Research in Zambia, Lusaka, Zambia, Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Alabama, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

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• Izukanji Sikazwe,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation

  Affiliation Centre for Infectious Diseases Research in Zambia, Lusaka, Zambia

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• Elvin Geng

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of HIV, Infectious Diseases and Global Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital, San Francisco, California, United States of America

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