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. 2017 Aug 29;20(Suppl 6):21755. doi: 10.7448/IAS.20.7.21755

Table 3.

Rates of false positive diagnosis rates among people diagnosed with HIV and/or enrolled in care or antiretroviral therapy (ART)

Study/author Sample size Total no. of retested No. of false positives Percentage of false positive diagnoses
Klarkowski et al. 2009 365 229 24 6.6
Shanks et al. 2013c 914 54 44 4.8
Shanks et al. 2013b 149 149 7 4.7
Shanks et al. 2013a 78 78 2 2.6
Khan et al. 2017 2533 88 14 0.55
Hsiao et al. 2017 952 37 3 0.3
Maparo et al. 2015 1447 1447 4 0.28
Nelson et al. 2016 3160 3146 3 0.1