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 analysis

Joshua M Chevalier¹, Sarah J Girdwood², Megan A Hansen¹, Lise Jamieson^3,4, Nkgomeleng Lekodeba⁴, Katherine Snyman⁴, Regina Maithufi⁵, Birgitta Gleeson², Benjamin Blumel², Shaukat Khan², Kyra H Grantz², Brooke E Nichols^1,3,6

1. Amsterdam Institute for Global Health and Development, Department of Global Health, Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands

2. FIND, Geneva, Switzerland

3. Health Economics and Epidemiology Research Office, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

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

5. National Department of Health, Pretoria, South Africa

6. Department of Global Health, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, USA