WHO and Treatment Action Group convened a satellite event at the 10th International AIDS Society Conference (IAS 2019) entitled Urine LAM tests: A golden opportunity to end TB deaths among people with advanced HIV, in Mexico on 22nd July 2019. The session shared the latest evidence on diagnostic tests, provided a broad overview of the update to the WHO guidelines for the use of the lateral flow urine lipoarabinomannan (LF-LAM) assay, reviewed the reasons behind poor policy uptake by countries and shared best practice and advocacy efforts by civil society to promote urine LF-LAM uptake.
IAS 2019
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