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Anita Sands
Researcher at World Health Organization
Publications - 23
Citations - 1136
Anita Sands is an academic researcher from World Health Organization. The author has contributed to research in topics: Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) & Test strategy. The author has an hindex of 14, co-authored 22 publications receiving 885 citations.
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Examining the effects of HIV self-testing compared to standard HIV testing services: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
Cheryl Johnson,Caitlin E. Kennedy,Virginia A. Fonner,Nandi Siegfried,Carmen Figueroa,Shona Dalal,Anita Sands,Rachel Baggaley +7 more
TL;DR: Johnson et al. as discussed by the authors found that HIV self-testing is associated with increased uptake and frequency of testing in RCTs, which will likely identify more HIV-positive individuals as compared to standard testing services alone.
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Laboratory evaluation of four HIV/syphilis rapid diagnostic tests
Annelies Van Den Heuvel,Hilde Smet,Irena Prat,Anita Sands,Willy Urassa,Katrien Fransen,Tania Crucitti +6 more
TL;DR: Although these results suggest that the tests could further improve in accuracy in detection of treponemal antibodies, their introduction into screening programmes to increase the accessibility of HIV/Syphilis diagnosis and treatment for difficult to reach populations in the world is promising.
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WHO comparative evaluation of serologic assays for Chagas disease.
Marcia M. Otani,Elizabeth Vinelli,Louis V. Kirchhoff,Ana del Pozo,Anita Sands,G. Vercauteren,Ester Cerdeira Sabino +6 more
TL;DR: This study presents a collaborative effort of Latin American blood centers and the World Health Organization to establish such a panel to establish a large and well‐characterized specimen panels for Chagas disease screening.
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Reliability of HIV rapid diagnostic tests for self-testing compared with testing by health-care workers: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Carmen Figueroa,Cheryl Johnson,Cheryl Johnson,Nathan Ford,Anita Sands,Shona Dalal,Robyn Meurant,Irena Prat,Karin Hatzold,Willy Urassa,Rachel Baggaley +10 more
TL;DR: Self-testers can reliably and accurately do HIV rapid diagnostic tests, as compared with trained health-care workers, according to a systematic review and meta-analysis of observational and experimental studies on HIV self-testing performance.
WHO recommendations on the diagnosis of HIV infection in infants and children
Lynne M. Mofenson,Gayle G. Sherman,Martina Penazzato,Anniek de Baets,Jörg Schüpbach,Artur Ramos,Susan A. Fiscus,Siobhan Crowley,G. Vercauteren,Anita Sands,Mercedes Pérez González,Bandana Malhotra,Dharani Yerrakalva,Victoria Anagbo,Sally Girvin,John Kirkwood +15 more
TL;DR: A meeting was convened to review recommendations by WHO for the diagnostic testing of HIV infection in infants and children, and the new recommendations for antiretroviral therapy (ART) are included.