Glossary of HIV/AIDS Terms
This glossary contains 1,600 terms and is maintained by the editors of the San Francisco AIDS Foundation's Bulletin of Experimental Treatments for AIDS.
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specificity: a statistical measure of the accuracy of a screening test, that is, how likely a test is to identify as negative those who do not have a disease or condition.
Contrast with sensitivity.