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Organisational model and coverage of at-home COVID-19 vaccination in an Italian urban context [PDF]

, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic called for a reorganisation of the methods for providing health services. The aim of this paper is to describe the organisational model implemented by one of Rome’s Local Health Units (LHU), ASL Roma 1, for the “at-home COVID-19 ...
At Home COVID-19 Vax Team, Parente P., Lanza T. E., Barbara A., Carini E., Axelrod S., Cadeddu C., Nurchis M. C., Goletti M., Castagna C., Grossi A.   +10 more
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Uptake of home-based voluntary HIV testing in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review and meta-analysis [PDF]

, 2012
Improving access to HIV testing is a key priority in scaling up HIV treatment and prevention services. Home-based voluntary counselling and testing (HBT) as an approach to delivering wide-scale HIV testing is explored ...
Fidler Sarah, Van den Bergh, Rafael, Hayes Richard, Ford, Nathan, Ford, N, Kalpana Sabapathy (113708), Nathan Ford, Kalpana Sabapathy, Nathan Ford (59436), Fidler, S, Hayes, Richard, Richard Hayes, Rafael Van den Bergh, Sarah Fidler, Richard Hayes (32740), Sarah Fidler (76851), Ford Nathan, Sabapathy, Kalpana, Fidler, Sarah, Van den Bergh, R, Sabapathy Kalpana, Rafael Van den Bergh (113711), Van den Bergh Rafael, Sabapathy, K, Hayes, R   +24 more
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Feasibility of large-scale population testing for SARS-CoV-2 detection by self-testing at home

Scientific Reports, 2021
The simplicity and low cost of rapid point-of-care tests greatly facilitate large-scale population testing, which can contribute to controlling the spread of the COVID-19 virus. We evaluated the applicability of a self-testing strategy for SARS-CoV2 in a
Paula Iruzubieta, Tatiana Fernández-Lanas, Laura Rasines, Lorena Cayon, Ana Álvarez-Cancelo, Alvaro Santos-Laso, Agustín García-Blanco, Soraya Curiel-Olmo, Joaquín Cabezas, Reinhard Wallmann, Emilio Fábrega, Víctor M. Martínez-Taboada, José L. Hernández, Marcos López-Hoyos, Jeffrey V. Lazarus, Javier Crespo   +15 more
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High accuracy of home-based community rapid HIV testing in rural Malawi. [PDF]

, 2010
OBJECTIVE: To assess the performance of rapid HIV antibody tests when used as part of a home-based community wide counseling and testing strategy in northern Malawi. DESIGN: A cross-sectional population survey of HIV infection, 2007 to 2008.
Richard Ndhlovu, Emmanuel Banda, Crampin, Amelia C., Molesworth, Anna M., Glynn, Judith R., Neil French, Jacqueline Saul, Glynn, Judith R, French, Neil, Ndhlovu, Richard, Banda, Emmanuel, Molesworth, Anna M, Crampin, Amelia C, Anna M Molesworth, Saul, Jacqueline, Judith R Glynn, Amelia C Crampin, Ngwira, Bagrey, Bagrey Ngwira   +18 more
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Prior Knowledge of Diagnostic Results Does Not Bias A Subject’s Interpretation of At-Home COVID-19 Antigen Tests

COVID, 2023
In developing in vitro diagnostic (IVD) tests, in particular at-home/over-the-counter (OTC) tests, one of the generally accepted exclusion criteria in IVD clinical trial protocols has been that of subjects with prior knowledge of their positive status ...
Eric Lai
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The Coronavirus Disease 2019 Spatial Care Path: Home, Community, and Emergency Diagnostic Portals

Diagnostics, 2022
This research uses mathematically derived visual logistics to interpret COVID-19 molecular and rapid antigen test (RAgT) performance, determine prevalence boundaries where risk exceeds expectations, and evaluate benefits of recursive testing along home ...
Gerald J. Kost
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Feasibility of home-based HIV counselling and testing and linking to HIV services among women delivering at home in Geita, Tanzania: a household longitudinal survey

BMC Public Health, 2019
Background Substantial number of women who deliver at home (WDH) are not captured in prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) services. This delays HIV infection detection that negatively impacts endeavours to fight the HIV pandemic and the ...
Juma Adinan, Bridgit Adamou, Caroline Amour, Aisa Shayo, Paulo Lino Kidayi, Levina Msuya   +5 more
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At-home sample collection is an effective strategy for diagnosis and management of symptomatic and asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 carriers

BMC Infectious Diseases, 2022
Background Diagnostic testing accessibility and asymptomatic transmission of SARS-CoV-2 present major challenges for curbing and preventing community prevalence of COVID-19.
Devon P. Humphreys, Kathleen M. Gavin, Kaylan M. Olds, Marc P. Bonaca, Timothy A. Bauer   +4 more
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Design for a Mail Survey to Determine Prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) Antibodies in the United States

Survey Research Methods, 2020
Although counts of the novel Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) infections and deaths are reported by several sources online, precise estimation of the exposed proportion of the population is not possible in most areas of the world.
Alicia Frasier, Heidi Guyer, Laura DiGrande, Rose Domanico, Darryl Cooney, Stephanie Eckman   +5 more
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Home-based versus mobile clinic HIV testing and counseling in rural Lesotho : a cluster-randomized trial [PDF]

, 2014
The success of HIV programs relies on widely accessible HIV testing and counseling (HTC) services at health facilities as well as in the community. Home-based HTC (HB-HTC) is a popular community-based approach to reach persons who do not test at health ...
Karolin Pfeiffer (300841), Ehmer, Jochen, Cerutti, Bernard, Hobbins, Michael A, Pfeiffer, Karolin, Michael A Hobbins, Mashaete Kamele (675523), Niklaus Daniel Labhardt, Motlomelo, Masetsibi, Labhardt, Niklaus Daniel, Kamele, Mashaete, Bernard Cerutti, Michael A. Hobbins (675524), Karolin Pfeiffer, Masetsibi Motlomelo, Jochen Ehmer (300840), Masetsibi Motlomelo (675521), Jochen Ehmer, Niklaus Daniel Labhardt (300836), Hobbins, Michael A., Mashaete Kamele, Bernard Cerutti (675522)   +21 more
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