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HIV Viral Load Monitoring Among Patients Receiving Antiretroviral Therapy — Eight Sub-Saharan Africa Countries, 2013–2018

What is already known about this topic?
HIV viral load monitoring is recommended to assess antiretroviral treatment success; however, low- and middle-income countries face financial, operational, and country-specific challenges that must be overcome to adequately scale up viral load monitoring for all HIV-positive persons.
What is added by this report?
Sub-Saharan African countries have overcome challenges to initiate and scale up HIV viral load testing to monitor patients receiving ART. By 2018, seven of eight assessed countries reported viral load suppression rates of ≥85%. Logistical problems remain in several countries.
What are the implications for public health practice?
Viral load testing in low- and middle-income countries enables monitoring of viral load suppression at the individual and population level, which is necessary to achieve global epidemic control. ....

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Covid 19 test to cost Shs36, 000

Daily Monitor
Thursday December 10 2020
A laboratory technician at the Uganda National Health Laboratories analyses Covid-19 samples on Wednesday. PHOTO/ STEPHEN OTAGE
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The cost of testing for Covid-19 is likely to drop from about Shs360, 000 ($100) to Shs36,000 ($10), a senior official of the National Health Laboratory Services has said.
The official says that with the introduction of rapid test kits, clients will get their result after ten minutes.
Dr Isaac Ssewanyana the director of Uganda National Health Laboratory Services said the performance of the kits which they have been evaluating for the last two weeks, is promising.
“We have been evaluating the rapid test kits for the last two weeks that allow us to get result in a short time. They [kits] are giving us fair results, they performed to a level which is acceptable,” he said on Wednesday. ....

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