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Epidemic Mitigation and Marginal Mortality-Gains Using Self-Testing as a Diagnostic Intervention for Epidemic-Prone Diseases in Africa

2026-05-20

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<h4>Background: </h4> African Union (AU) guidance identifies decentralized diagnostics as central to epidemic preparedness. However, the epidemiological role of self-testing across epidemic-prone diseases remains underexplored. Drivers for potential impact of self-testing impact were examined conceptually using a transmission model. <h4>Methods:</h4> A deterministic SEIR model compared standard-of-care testing wit...

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Literature Corpus work: d8519e7d-91b4-591a-9930-2b536d6a8f66
DOI: 10.20944/preprints202605.1304.v1

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