HIV Infection and Diabetes

Integrating cardiovascular disease risk factor screening into HIV services in Swaziland

“…The use of POC testing has the potential to enable rapid assessment and decision-making and facilitate same-day linkage to CVDRF treatment. We note that HbA1c testing may underestimate the prevalence of diabetes amongst PLHIV;[13]; decreasing the diagnostic threshold for HbA1c by 2 and 0.5% would have yielded an additional 2.4 and 10% of cases, respectively.…”