Point-of-care testing (POCT) is the analysis of patient specimens outside the clinical
laboratory, near or at the site of patient care, usually performed by clinical staff without …

The care cascade—which evaluates outcomes across stages of patient engagement in a
health system—is an important framework for assessing quality of tuberculosis (TB) care. In …

Background Programmes that introduce rapid molecular tests for tuberculosis and
tuberculosis drug resistance aim to bring tests closer to the community, and thereby cut …

Abstract Background Many clinics in Southern Africa have long waiting times. The
implementation of point-of-care (POC) tests to accelerate diagnosis and improve clinical …

The advantages offered by centrifugal microfluidic systems have encouraged its rapid
adaptation in the fields of in vitro diagnostics, clinical chemistry, immunoassays, and nucleic …

Mobile health (mHealth) technologies for HIV care are developed to provide diagnostic
support, health education, risk assessment and self‐monitoring. They aim to either improve …

Objective. We aimed to investigate the awareness, health care seeking behavior, and
diagnostic delay in extrapulmonary tuberculosis (EPTB) in a resource‐constrained setting …

Background: The cartridge-based nucleic acid amplification test (CBNAAT) Xpert MTB/RIF is
more sensitive than smear microscopy for the diagnosis of tuberculosis (TB). It is also more …

Urine samples are increasingly used for diagnosing infections including Escherichia coli,
Ebola virus, and Zika virus. However, extraction and concentration of nucleic acid …

In ensuring access to effective diagnostics for TB care, we not only need to assess that these
technologies are accurate but also that they are feasible, useable and acceptable. The users …