NGCT POCT Model South Africa

A mathematical and health economics model for a POCT for NGCT STI testing and NGCT GeneXpert testing in the national South African population (ages 15-59). The model underlying the manuscript: National scale-up of etiological testing for N. gonorrhoeae and C. trachomatis in South Africa: a health economic modelling analysisJoshua M Chevalier1, Sarah J Girdwood2, Megan A Hansen1, Lise Jamieson3,4, Nkgomeleng Lekodeba4, Katherine Snyman4, Regina Maithufi5, Birgitta Gleeson2, Benjamin Blumel2, Shaukat Khan2, Kyra H Grantz2, Brooke E Nichols1,3,61. Amsterdam Institute for Global Health and Development, Department of Global Health, Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands2. FIND, Geneva, Switzerland3. Health Economics and Epidemiology Research Office, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa4. South African Centre for Epidemiological Modelling and Analysis (SACEMA), Stellenbosch University, South Africa5. National Department of Health, Pretoria, South Africa6. Department of Global Health, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, USA