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ajlm-224	Bassey, Orji; Bond, Kyle; Adedeji, Adebayo; Oke, Odafen; Abubakar, Ado; Yakubu, Kachiro; Jelpe, Tapdiyel; Akintunde, Ezekiel; Ikani, Patrick; Ogundiran, Adeniyi; Onoja, Ali; Kawu, Issa; Ikwulono, Gabriel; Saliu, Idris; Nwanyawu, Okey; Deyde, Varough	Evaluation of nine HIV rapid test kits to develop a national HIV testing algorithm in Nigeria	2015		.htm	text/html	7109	338	47	HIV rapid testing remains a key entry point to HIV prevention, treatment, care and support in resource-limited settings.7 Its main advantages include the relative ease of use, low cost and faster turn-around time over enzyme immunoassays (EIAs) and Western blot (WB) assays. With an HIV rapid testing strategy, increased awareness of HIV status amongst many groups who would otherwise have been unaware of their status has been achieved.8,9,10 Providing quality-assured and accurate rapid HIV serological testing is critical in the early diagnosis and timely counselling of HIV-infected people for referral to care and treatment as well as prevention of mother-to-child transmission and monitoring of HIV prevalence in the population.7,9 HIV rapid testing also readily provides access to and enhances HIV counselling and testing in hard-to-reach rural populations,11,12 as well as in hard-to-reach, high-risk target populations, such as men who have sex with men.10 High-risk groups with acute HIV infection in Nigeria have previously been characterised by use of a combination of rapid HIV testing in mobile units and laboratory-based specimens pooling for nucleic acid amplification testing.13 To date, several African countries have conducted evaluation studies and implemented rapid HIV testing as a tool for fighting the HIV epidemic.	cache/ajlm-224.htm	txt/ajlm-224.txt