Estimation of benzathine penicillin G demand for congenital syphilis elimination with adoption of dual HIV/syphilis rapid diagnostic tests in eleven high burden countries

Sapan Shah; Surbhi Garg; Katherine Heath; Obiageli Ofili; Yashika Bansal; Frederic Seghers; Andrew Storey; Melanie Taylor

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0256400

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Estimation of benzathine penicillin G demand for congenital syphilis elimination with adoption of dual HIV/syphilis rapid diagnostic tests in eleven high burden countries

Sapan Shah ,

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

* E-mail: shah.sapan11@gmail.com

Affiliation Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI) India, New Delhi, Delhi, India

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6323-4758

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Surbhi Garg,

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI) India, New Delhi, Delhi, India
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Katherine Heath,

Roles Data curation, Resources, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Global Programmes of HIV, Hepatitis, STI, World Health Organization (WHO), Geneva, Switzerland, Macfarlane Burnet Institute, Melbourne, Australia
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Obiageli Ofili,

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI), Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Yashika Bansal,

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

Affiliation Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI) India, New Delhi, Delhi, India
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Frederic Seghers,

Roles Conceptualization, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI), Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Andrew Storey,

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

Affiliation Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI), Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Melanie Taylor

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Global Programmes of HIV, Hepatitis, STI, World Health Organization (WHO), Geneva, Switzerland, United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, United States of America
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Estimation of benzathine penicillin G demand for congenital syphilis elimination with adoption of dual HIV/syphilis rapid diagnostic tests in eleven high burden countries

Sapan Shah,
Surbhi Garg,
Katherine Heath,
Obiageli Ofili,
Yashika Bansal,
Frederic Seghers,
Andrew Storey,
Melanie Taylor

Published: August 19, 2021
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0256400

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