External quality assessment in the voluntary counseling and testing centers in the Brazilian Amazon using dried tube specimens: results of an effectiveness evaluation

INTRODUCTION : In 2011, the Brazilian Ministry of Health rolled out a program for the external quality assessment of rapid human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) tests using the dried tube specimen (DTS) method (EQA-RT/DTS-HIV). Our objective was to evaluate the implementation of this program at 71 volu...

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Main Authors: Andréa Mônica Brandão Beber, Meritxell Sabidó, Janete Maria Rebelo Vieira, Maria Luiza Bazzo, Adele Schwartz Benzaken
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical (SBMT) 2015-06-01
Series:Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical
Subjects:
HIV
Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0037-86822015000800087&lng=en&tlng=en