Oral rapid test: an alternative to traditional HIV screening in Chile

• Main Authors: Lisette Paola Irarrazábal, Lilian Ferrer, Rosina Cianelli, Loreto Lara, Reiley Reed, Judith Levy, Carlos Pérez
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; Spanish; Portuguese
• Published: Pan American Health Organization 2013
• Subjects: Infecciones por VIH; diagnóstico; serodiagnóstico del SIDA; seroprevalencia de VIH; técnicas de laboratorio clínico; prevención de enfermedades; Chile; Medicine; R; Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Public aspects of medicine; RA1-1270; Arctic; Sida
• Online Access: https://doaj.org/article/54afe504519e46368a04ab4536058085

OBJECTIVE: To compare the sensitivity and specificity of an Oral Rapid Test (ORT) to that of the Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay (ELISA) for HIV testing in Santiago, Chile; to track the number of study participants returning for ELISA testing results; and to analyze the participants' percepti...