Point-of-Care Tests for HIV, Related Coinfections, and Blood-Borne Infections

Nitika Pant Pai 1 and Rosanna W. Peeling 2 and Bryce D. Smith 3 and David Dowdy 4 1, Division of Clinical Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, McGill University Health Center, McGill University, V Building, Royal Victoria Hospital, 687 Pine Avenue West, Montreal, QC, H3A 1A1, Canada 2, Clinical Research Department, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London WC1E 7HT, UK 3, Division of Viral Hepatitis, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30333 , USA 4, Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 615 N. Wolfe Street, E6531, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA Received 15 April 2014; Accepted 15 April 2014; 6 May 2014 This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. In this study, an innovative peer-to-peer approach using community leaders was more effective in reaching HIV-infected individuals than facility-based campaigns with trained health care personnel.