Table 3 Trends of rejected specimens in APHI reference laboratories from 01 July 2017 to 30 June 2018
Specimens | 2017 | 2018 | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jul | Aug | Sept | Oct | Nov | Dec | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | June | |
HIV 1 viral load | ||||||||||||
 Total received | 2076 | 823 | 2041 | 3393 | 2425 | 3709 | 3725 | 2497 | 4192 | 4057 | 2637 | 2526 |
 Rejected | 26 | 15 | 31 | 35 | 33 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 35 | 8 |
 % | 1.3 | 1.8 | 1.5 | 1.0 | 1.4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 1.3 | 0.3 |
EID | ||||||||||||
 Total received | 0 | 439 | 165 | 57 | 45 | 319 | 403 | 135 | 217 | 74 | 165 | 101 |
 Rejected | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
 % | – | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.5 | 1.4 | 0.6 | 2.0 |
CD4 | ||||||||||||
 Total received | 0 | 0 | 0 | 154 | 274 | 294 | 393 | 401 | 390 | 278 | 348 | 229 |
 Rejected | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 1 |
 % | – | – | – | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 4.3 | 0.4 |
TB genexpert | ||||||||||||
 Total received | 78 | 75 | 114 | 168 | 170 | 320 | 190 | 197 | 186 | 159 | 167 | 114 |
 Rejected | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
 % | 0.0 | 1.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 1.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |