Diagnosis of HIV infection using mass community rapid testing in Santiago, Chile

The challenges of Chile to achieve control the HIV/AIDS pandemic the year 2030: A review

“…A survey conducted in more than 7500 people who underwent a rapid HIV test indicated that 25% of them would never take an HIV test due to lack of time, lack of interest, fear of the result, difficulty in accessing the test, and high cost of HIV testing. [5] Thus, if a universal diagnosis is not established in Chile, the 95/95/95 goal will never be reached, as our first 95% will never be achieved, and this goal will again fail. To stop the spread of HIV infection in Chile, it is essential to significantly increase the number of people tested and implement this measure as soon as possible.…”

“…From 2010 to 2019, the rate of new HIV cases dramatically increased to 133% in young people aged 15 to 39 years. [1,4,5] Unfortunately, this misguided policy of several years has exposed thousands of young children to the virus, thus requiring them to undergo decades of antiretroviral treatment. To end the fight against HIV infection, great global effort is required to achieve early diagnosis, universal treatment, viral suppression, retention in care, and close monitoring of patients who develop resistance to antiretroviral agents.…”

“…From 2010 to 2019, the rate of new HIV cases dramatically increased to 133% in young people aged 15 to 39 years. [ 1 , 4 , 5 ]…”

Actualización sobre las pruebas diagnósticas de la infección por el virus de la inmunodeficiencia humana en gestantes

“…Las PR que solo detectan anticuerpos anti-VIH poseen una sensibilidad semejante al ensayo de inmunoadsorción ligado a enzimas (ELISA) -100%- (18) , pero su especificidad es menor (19) .…”

Improving design features and air bubble manipulation techniques for a single-step sandwich electrochemical ELISA incorporating commercial electrodes into capillary-flow driven immunoassay devices

“…Point-of-care testing (POCT) allows diagnostics to be performed outside of a centralized laboratory setting and serves as an important tool to facilitate healthcare access for a variety of outcomes such as early diagnosis, 1 therapeutic decisions, 2 and monitoring of disease progression. 3,4 Trends in POCT development aim to improve upon the REASSURED criteria, which stands for real-time connectivity, ease of specimen collection, affordable, sensitive, specific, user-friendly, rapid & robust, equipment-free, and deliverable to end users.…”