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Implications for HIV testing policy derived from combining data on voluntary confidential testing with viral sequences and serological analyses.
Sexually transmitted infections - 1 Feb 2009
Brown A E, Murphy G, Rinck G, Clewley J P, Hill C, Parry J V, Johnson A M, Pillay D, Gill O N
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OBJECTIVES: Laboratory, clinical and sequence-based data were combined to assess the differential uptake of voluntary confidential HIV testing (VCT) according to risk and explore the occurrence of HIV transmission from individuals with recently acquired HIV infection, before the diagnostic opportunity. METHODS: Between 1999 and 2002, nearly 30,000 anonymous tests for previously undiagnosed HIV infection were...
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