Use of HIV Recency Assays for HIV Incidence Estimation and Other Surveillance Use Cases: Systematic Review

Shelley N Facente   ^{1, 2, 3} , MPH, PhD ;   Eduard Grebe   ^{1, 3, 4} , PhD ;   Andrew D Maher   ^{4, 5} , MPH ;   Douglas Fox   ² , BSc ;   Susan Scheer   ² , PhD ;   Mary Mahy   ⁶ , MHSc, ScD ;   Shona Dalal   ⁷ , PhD ;   David Lowrance   ⁷ , MPH, MD ;   Kimberly Marsh   ⁶ , PhD

¹ Department of Laboratory Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States

² Facente Consulting, Richmond, CA, United States

³ Vitalant Research Institute, San Francisco, CA, United States

⁴ South African Centre for Epidemiological Modeling and Analysis (SACEMA), Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa

⁵ Institute for Global Health Sciences, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States

⁶ Strategic Information Department, The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), Geneva, Switzerland

⁷ Global HIV, Hepatitis and Sexually Transmitted Infections Programmes, World Health Organisation, Geneva, Switzerland