Quality assurance for hepatitis C virus point-of-care diagnostics in sub-Saharan Africa
| dc.contributor.author | Duah, Evans | |
| dc.contributor.author | Mathebula, Evans Mantiri | |
| dc.contributor.author | Mashamba‑Thompson, Tivani Phosa | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-05-15T12:57:16Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2024-05-15T12:57:16Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2023-02-12 | |
| dc.description.abstract | As part of a multinational study to evaluate the Bioline Hepatitis C virus (HCV) point-of- care (POC) testing in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), this narrative review summarises regulatory standards and quality indicators for validating and approving HCV clinical diagnostics. In addition, this review also provides a summary of their diagnostic evaluations using the REASSURED criteria as the benchmark and its implications on the WHO HCV elimination goals 2030. | en_US |
| dc.description.department | School of Health Systems and Public Health (SHSPH) | en_US |
| dc.description.librarian | am2024 | en_US |
| dc.description.sdg | SDG-03:Good heatlh and well-being | en_US |
| dc.description.uri | https://www.mdpi.com/journal/diagnostics | en_US |
| dc.identifier.citation | Duah, E.; Mathebula, E.M.; Mashamba-Thompson, T. Quality Assurance for Hepatitis C Virus Point-of-Care Diagnostics in Sub-Saharan Africa. Diagnostics 2023, 13, 684. https://DOI.org/10.3390/diagnostics13040684. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.issn | 2075-4418 (online) | |
| dc.identifier.other | 10.3390/diagnostics13040684 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/96001 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | MDPI | en_US |
| dc.rights | © 2023 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license. | en_US |
| dc.subject | Evaluation | en_US |
| dc.subject | Regulatory standards | en_US |
| dc.subject | Hepatitis C virus (HCV) | en_US |
| dc.subject | Point-of-care (POC) | en_US |
| dc.subject | Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) | en_US |
| dc.subject | REASSURED criteria | en_US |
| dc.subject | SDG-03: Good health and well-being | en_US |
| dc.title | Quality assurance for hepatitis C virus point-of-care diagnostics in sub-Saharan Africa | en_US |
| dc.type | Article | en_US |