COVID‑19 Lockdowns: Impact on facility‑based HIV testing and the case for the scaling up of home‑based testing services in Sub‑Saharan Africa
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Date
2020
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Springer Nature
Abstract
In December 2019, China reported the emergence of a pneumonia of unknown cause in Wuhan [1]. By 7 January 2020, the etiology of the pneumonia was attributed to a virus of the coronavirus family, and later on the disease was named coronavirus disease (COVID-19) on 11 February 2020 by the WHO [2, 3]. The symptoms of COVID-19 appear after an average incubation period of 5.2 days [1].
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Covid-19 lockdowns, Home based testing, facility-based HIV testing, Sub‑Saharan Africa, Wuhan
Citation
Mhango, M . et al. (2020). COVID‑19 Lockdowns: Impact on facility‑based HIV testing and the case for the scaling up of home‑based testing services in Sub‑Saharan Africa. AIDS and Behavior. 24(11), 3014-3016 .Doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10461-020-02939-6