Open AccessA Comprehensive Approach to Assuring Quality of Laboratory Testing in HIV Surveys: Lessons Learned From the Population-Based HIV Impact Assessment Project
Author(s) -
Hetal Patel,
Yen T. Duong,
Sehin Birhanu,
Trudy Dobbs,
Kathryn Lupoli,
Carole Moore,
Mervi Detorio,
Katrina Sleeman,
Julius Manjengwa,
Floris Wray-Gordon,
Daniel Yavo,
Keisha Jackson,
Robert A. Domaoal,
Ernest L. Yufenyuy,
Vedapuri Shanmugam,
Clement B. Ndongmo,
Francis Ogollah,
Tafadzwa Dzinamarira,
Paul G. Rubinstein,
Karampreet Sachathep,
Melissa Metz,
Herbert Longwe,
Suzue Saito,
Kristin Brown,
Andrew C. Voetsch,
Bharat Parekh
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.162
H-Index - 157
eISSN - 1944-7884
pISSN - 1525-4135
DOI - 10.1097/qai.0000000000002702
Subject(s) - population , quality assurance , data quality , quality (philosophy) , data collection , medicine , procurement , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , external quality assessment , operations management , environmental health , engineering , family medicine , business , pathology , statistics , metric (unit) , philosophy , mathematics , epistemology , marketing
Conducting HIV surveys in resource-limited settings is challenging because of logistics, limited availability of trained personnel, and complexity of testing. We described the procedures and systems deemed critical to ensure high-quality laboratory data in the population-based HIV impact assessments and large-scale household surveys.