He, Lin
Yang, Jiezhe
Ma, Qiaoqin
Zhang, Jiafeng
Xu, Yun
Xia, Yan
Chen, Wanjun
Wang, Hui
Zheng, Jinlei
Jiang, Jun
Luo, Yan
Xu, Ke
Zhang, Xingliang
Xia, Shichang
Pan, Xiaohong
Funding for this research was provided by:
Major Special Project of Science and Technology of Zhejiang Province, China (2013C03047-1)
Zhejiang Provincial Medicine Science and Technology Plan (2015PYA004)
Research Project for Health and Family Planning Commission of Zhejiang Province (2014ZDA034)
Zhejiang General Plan for Medical and Health care (2015KYB082)
Article History
Received: 19 June 2017
Accepted: 17 December 2017
First Online: 1 February 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: This study was reviewed and approved by the Institutional Review Board of Zhejiang Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention. HIV-infected individuals received free ART with voluntary and signed informed consent; all the tests, including VL detection tests were free and investigators were required to tell HIV-infected individuals their VL results. We did obtain signed informed consent from all those enrolled before VL testing was conducted. The data from the sentinel surveillance of MSM and that on newly diagnosed infections detected using BED detection were based on routine programmatic data and thus informed consent was not required for the use of this data.
: Not applicable.
: The authors have declared that they have no competing interests.
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