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EMERGING INFECTIOUS DISEASES
Volume 28, Issue -, Pages S59-S68Publisher
CENTERS DISEASE CONTROL & PREVENTION
DOI: 10.3201/eid2813.220789
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- PEPFAR through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- PEPFAR through CDC [0900f3eb81dfa764]
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The PEPFAR-supported diagnostic networks played a crucial role in providing SARS-CoV-2 testing support during the COVID-19 pandemic in low- and middle-income countries, contributing to millions of tests and effectively responding to the emergency situation.
The US President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) supports molecular HIV and tuberculosis diagnostic networks and information management systems in low- and middle-income countries. We describe how national programs leveraged these PEPFAR-supported laboratory resources for SARS-CoV-2 testing during the COVID-19 pandemic. We sent a spreadsheet template consisting of 46 indicators for assessing the use of PEPFAR-supported diagnostic networks for COVID-19 pandemic response activities during April 1, 2020, to March 31, 2021, to 27 PEPFAR-supported countries or regions. A total of 109 PEPFAR-supported centralized HIV viral load and early infant diagnosis laboratories and 138 decentralized HN and TB sites reported performing SARS- CoV-2 testing in 16 countries. Together, these sites contributed to >3.4 million SARS-CoV-2 tests during the 1-year period. Our findings illustrate that PEPFARsupported diagnostic networks provided a wide range of resources to respond to emergency COVID-19 diagnostic testing in 16 low- and middle-income countries.
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