HIV Testing among Patients with Presumptive Tuberculosis: How Do We Implement in a Routine Programmatic Setting? Results of a Large Operational Research from India.

BACKGROUND:In March 2012, World Health Organization recommended that HIV testing should be offered to all patients with presumptive TB (previously called TB suspects). How this is best implemented and monitored in routine health care settings in India was not known. An operational research was condu...

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Main Authors: Ajay Mv Kumar, Devesh Gupta, Ashok Kumar, R S Gupta, Avinash Kanchar, Raghuram Rao, Suresh Shastri, M D Suryakanth, Chethana Rangaraju, Balaji Naik, Deepak K Guddemane, Prashant Bhat, Achuthan Sreenivas Nair, Anthony David Harries, Puneet Dewan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4887014?pdf=render