{"id":13442,"date":"2020-03-11T10:52:52","date_gmt":"2020-03-11T17:52:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/gwach\/?p=13442"},"modified":"2026-03-31T12:11:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T19:11:06","slug":"global-wach-researchers-contribute-to-whos-consolidated-guidelines-on-hiv-testing-services-for-a-changing-epidemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalwach\/2020\/03\/11\/global-wach-researchers-contribute-to-whos-consolidated-guidelines-on-hiv-testing-services-for-a-changing-epidemic\/","title":{"rendered":"Global WACh researchers contribute to WHO HIV Testing Services guidelines for a changing epidemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Global WACh and other UW researchers led a series of systematic reviews that informed the newly released 2019 World Health Organization (WHO) HIV testing guidelines. Readers can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/publications\/b\/47494\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">access the guidelines on the WHO\u2019s\u00a0website<\/a>\u00a0or as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/news-room\/apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a\u00a0mobile app\u00a0for on-the-go access<\/a>.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Principal investigators <a href=\"https:\/\/globalhealth.washington.edu\/faculty\/alison-drake\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Drs. Alison Drake (Global Health, Epidemiology)<\/a> and David Katz (Medicine &#8211; Allergy and Infectious Diseases), along with project leads <a href=\"https:\/\/globalhealth.washington.edu\/faculty\/anjuli-wagner\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Drs. Anjuli Wagner (Global Health)<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/globalhealth.washington.edu\/faculty\/brandon-guthrie\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Brandon Guthrie (Global Health, Epidemiology)<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/epi.washington.edu\/faculty\/khosropour-christine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Christine Khosropour (Epidemiology)<\/a>, led reviews on syphilis testing, social network testing, demand creation, serodiscordant couples services, and sexual behavior change.<\/p>\n<p>Team leads were supported by researchers and students across the globe, including Michelle Bulterys*, Barbara Burke*, Rachael Burke, Miranda Delawalla*, Julia Dettinger*, Jaclyn Escudero*, Neway Fida, Hannah Han*, Wenwen Jiang*, Ngozi Kalu, Dorothy Mangale*, Luke Mair, Sarah Masyuko*, Julianne Meisner*, Bastien Mollo, Kennedy Muni*, Jilian Neary*, Irene Njuguna*, Chris Obermeyer, Caitlin Quinn, Allen Roberts*, Tricia Rodriguez*, Monisha Sharma*, Lee Sims, Ruchi Tiwari*, Meredith Wang*, and Chloe Waters*.<\/p>\n<p><em>* Affiliated with Global WACh<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Global WACh and other UW researchers led a series of systematic reviews that informed the newly released 2019 World Health Organization (WHO) HIV testing guidelines. Readers can access the guidelines on the WHO\u2019s\u00a0website\u00a0or as a\u00a0mobile app\u00a0for on-the-go access.<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalwach\/2020\/03\/11\/global-wach-researchers-contribute-to-whos-consolidated-guidelines-on-hiv-testing-services-for-a-changing-epidemic\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Global WACh researchers contribute to WHO HIV Testing Services guidelines for a changing epidemic\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hiv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalwach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalwach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalwach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalwach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalwach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13442"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalwach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18748,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalwach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13442\/revisions\/18748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalwach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalwach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalwach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}