Screening and diagnostic testing protocols for HIV and Syphilis infections in health care setting in Qatar: Evaluation and recommendations

• Gheyath K. Nasrallah ,

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

  * E-mail: aismail@moph.gov.qa, aicmp@yahoo.com (AI); gheyath.nasrallah@qu.edu.qa (GKN)

  Affiliations Department of Biomedical Science, College of Health Sciences, QU Health, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar, Biomedical Research Center, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9252-1038

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• Raniya Al-Buainain ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Raniya Al-Buainain, Nadin Younes

  Roles Data curation, Software, Validation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Medical Commission Department, Laboratory Section, Ministry of Public Health, Doha, Qatar

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• Nadin Younes ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Raniya Al-Buainain, Nadin Younes

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Biomedical Science, College of Health Sciences, QU Health, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar, Biomedical Research Center, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar

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• Soha R. Dargham,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Validation

  Affiliations Infectious Disease Epidemiology Group, Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar, Cornell University, Doha, Qatar, World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Disease Epidemiology Analytics on HIV/AIDS, Sexually Transmitted Infections, and Viral Hepatitis, Weill Cornell Medicine–Qatar, Cornell University, Doha, Qatar

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• Duaa W. Al-Sadeq,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization

  Affiliations Biomedical Research Center, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar, College of Medicine, QU Health, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar

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• Mohamed Elhassan,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software

  Affiliation Medical Commission Department, Laboratory Section, Ministry of Public Health, Doha, Qatar

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• Ibrahim Al-Shaar,

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

  Affiliation Medical Commission Department, Laboratory Section, Ministry of Public Health, Doha, Qatar

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• Hadi M. Yassine,

  Roles Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Biomedical Science, College of Health Sciences, QU Health, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar, Biomedical Research Center, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7592-2788

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• Laith J. Abu-Raddad,

  Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Infectious Disease Epidemiology Group, Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar, Cornell University, Doha, Qatar, World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Disease Epidemiology Analytics on HIV/AIDS, Sexually Transmitted Infections, and Viral Hepatitis, Weill Cornell Medicine–Qatar, Cornell University, Doha, Qatar

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• Mohamed M. Emara,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Validation

  Affiliation College of Medicine, QU Health, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar

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• Ahmed Ismail

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: aismail@moph.gov.qa, aicmp@yahoo.com (AI); gheyath.nasrallah@qu.edu.qa (GKN)

  Affiliation Medical Commission Department, Laboratory Section, Ministry of Public Health, Doha, Qatar

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