Supplement
HIV testing services
December 2016
The purpose of this document is to provide interim guidance to laboratories and stakeholders involved in laboratory testing for Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV).
HIV Testing and Counselling Guidelines
Euro Surveillance 2014;19(47):pii=20970, p.31-37
Epidemiologisches Bulletin; 1. Dezember 2014 / Nr. 48
HTC COUNTRY REPORT | LESOTHO
DHS Working Papers No. 119
DHS Working Papers No. 110 | Zimbabwe Working Papers No. 11
This clinical job aid provides health care workers with information on how to collect specimens for early infant diagnosis on dried blood spots, as well as drying and packaging for transport.
Tokar A, et al. Sex Transm Infect 2019;95:193–200. doi:10.1136/sextrans-2018-053684
HIV testing services
Policy Brief
November 2018
WHO/CDS/HIV/18.48
HIV testing
Policy Brief
July 2015
HIV testing
Policy Brief
July 2015
WHO recommends replacing western blotting and line immunoassays with simpler tests in HIV testing services. These simpler tests include rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) that can be used at the point-of-care, and enzyme immunoassays (EIAs).
These tes...ts get results to the client faster, produce accurate results more often, cost less, can be performed by various cadres of health providers, and can thus facilitate greater access and uptake of HIV testing services among those who need it most.
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The purpose of this document is to provide interim guidance to laboratories and stakeholders involved in laboratory testing of patients who meet the definition of suspected case of pneumonia associated with a novel coronavirus identified in Wuhan, C...hina.
19 March 2020
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