There is increasing interest in using dried blood spot (DBS) cards to extend the reach of
global health and disease surveillance programs to hard-to-reach populations …

SUMMARY HIV diagnostics have played a central role in the remarkable progress in
identifying, staging, initiating, and monitoring infected individuals on life-saving antiretroviral …

Higher accessibility and decreasing costs of next generation sequencing (NGS), availability
of commercial kits, and development of dedicated analysis pipelines, have allowed an …

Background HIV drug resistance (HIVDR) testing was included in the 2017 South African
national HIV household survey. We describe the prevalence of HIVDR by drug class, age …

Abstract The Russian war in Ukraine poses many risks for the spread of HIV, TB and
associated conditions, including possible increases in the numbers of people who inject …

Abstract World Health Organization-recommended surveys of acquired HIV-1 drug
resistance include assessment of HIV-1 viral load suppression to levels below 1,000 …

Objectives We implemented the WHO cross-sectional survey protocol to determine rates of
HIV viral load (VL) suppression (VLS), and weighted prevalence, predictors and patterns of …

Introduction Access to antiretroviral treatment (ART) becomes more and more effective in
resource‐limited settings (RLS). However, this global effort would be even more profitable if …

Background Continued use of standardized, first-line ART containing NNRTIs and NRTIs
may contribute to ongoing emergence of HIV drug resistance (HIVDR) in Namibia. Methods …

Background WHO revised their HIV drug resistance (HIVDR) monitoring strategy in 2014,
enabling countries to generate nationally representative HIVDR prevalence estimates from …