Improving the quality of HIV rapid testing in Ghana using the dried tube specimen-based proficiency testing program

• Bernard Nkrumah ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: bennkum@gmail.com

  Affiliation Division of Global Health Protection, Center for Global Health, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Accra, Ghana

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7613-5353

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• Nnaemeka C. Iriemenam,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Global HIV and TB, Center for Global Health, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Abuja, Nigeria

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2187-8894

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• Francis Frimpong,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation National AIDS/STI Control Program, Ghana Health Service, Accra, Ghana

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• Mireille B. Kalou,

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

  Affiliation Division of Global HIV and TB, Center for Global Health, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Port au Prince, Haiti

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• Berenice Botchway,

  Roles Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation National AIDS/STI Control Program, Ghana Health Service, Accra, Ghana

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• Rowland Adukpo,

  Roles Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation National AIDS/STI Control Program, Ghana Health Service, Accra, Ghana

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• Keisha G. Jackson,

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

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

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• Pawan Angra,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Global Health Protection, Center for Global Health, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

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• Toni Whistler,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Global Health Protection, Center for Global Health, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7250-908X

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• Amitabh P. Adhikari,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

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

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• Stephen Ayisi-Addo,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation National AIDS/STI Control Program, Ghana Health Service, Accra, Ghana

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• Michael A. Melchior

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

  Affiliation Division of Global HIV and TB, Center for Global Health, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Harare, Zimbabwe

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9426-5437

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