Prospective Evaluation of HIV Testing Technologies in a Clinical Setting: Protocol for Project DETECT.

ABSTRACT:

Background

HIV testing guidelines provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) are continually changing to reflect advancements in new testing technology. Evaluation of existing and new point-of-care (POC) HIV tests is crucial to inform testing guidelines and provide information to clinicians and other HIV test providers. Characterizing the performance of POC HIV tests using unprocessed specimens can provide estimates for the window period of detection, or the time from HIV acquisition to test positivity, which allows clinicians and other HIV providers to select the appropriate POC HIV tests for persons who may be recently infected with HIV.

Objective

This paper describes the protocols and procedures used to evaluate the performance of the newest POC test

SUBMITTER: Stekler JD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7011122 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature