Viewpoint: Why do we need a point‐of‐care CD4 test for low‐income countries?
Open Access
- 2 November 2010
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in Tropical Medicine & International Health
- Vol. 16 (1), 37-41
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-3156.2010.02669.x
Abstract
In this paper, we discuss the reasons why we urgently need a point-of-care (POC) CD4 test, elaborate the problems we have experienced with the current technology which hampers CD4-count coverage and highlight the ideal characteristics of a universal CD4 POC test. It is high-time that CD4 technology is simplified and adapted for wider use in low-income countries to change the current paradigm of restricted access once and for all.Keywords
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