High performance of point-of-care rapid tests for advanced HIV disease diagnosis by lay providers in Malawi: Results from a prospective diagnostic accuracy study supporting decentralized advanced HIV disease screening

• Agness Thawani ,

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

  * E-mail: athawani@lighthouse.org.mw

  ¶‡ AT, ER contributed equally to this work and are joint first authors.

  Affiliation Lighthouse Trust, Lilongwe, Malawi

  https://orcid.org/0009-0007-1221-0901

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• Ethel Rambiki ,

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

  ¶‡ AT, ER contributed equally to this work and are joint first authors.

  Affiliation Lighthouse Trust, Lilongwe, Malawi

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• Jacqueline Huwa,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Lighthouse Trust, Lilongwe, Malawi

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• Layout Gabriel,

  Roles Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Lighthouse Trust, Lilongwe, Malawi

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• Aubrey Kudzala,

  Roles Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Lighthouse Trust, Lilongwe, Malawi

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• Christine Kiruthu-Kamamia,

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

  Affiliations Lighthouse Trust, Lilongwe, Malawi, International Training and Education Center for Health, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

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• Pachawo Bisani,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Lighthouse Trust, Lilongwe, Malawi

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• Shameem Buleya,

  Roles Investigation, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Lighthouse Trust, Lilongwe, Malawi

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• Nathan P. Ford,

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

  Affiliation Global HIV, Hepatitis and STI Programmes, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

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• Cheryl C. Johnson,

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

  Affiliation Global HIV, Hepatitis and STI Programmes, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

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• Ajay Rangaraj,

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

  Affiliation Global HIV, Hepatitis and STI Programmes, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

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• Robert Luo,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Global HIV, Hepatitis and STI Programmes, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

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• Celine Lastrucci,

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

  Affiliation Global HIV, Hepatitis and STI Programmes, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

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• Busisiwe Msimanga,

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

  Affiliation Global HIV, Hepatitis and STI Programmes, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

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• Rose Nyirenda,

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

  Affiliation Department of HIV and AIDS, Ministry of Health, Malawi

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• Bilaal Wilson Matola,

  Roles Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of HIV and AIDS, Ministry of Health, Malawi

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• Andreas Jahn,

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

  Affiliations International Training and Education Center for Health, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Department of HIV and AIDS, Ministry of Health, Malawi

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4645-1600

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• Claudia Wallrauch,

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

  Affiliations Lighthouse Trust, Lilongwe, Malawi, LMU University Hospital Munich, Division of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, Munich, Germany

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• Rachael Burke,

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

  Affiliation London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

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• Tom Heller

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

  Affiliations Lighthouse Trust, Lilongwe, Malawi, International Training and Education Center for Health, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

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