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However, the data also highlight the need for new systems to avoid adverse impact on disease surveillance.Trial registration number Australian and New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry: ACTRN12613000808741.To our knowledge, this is the first study to explore the public health implications of using CT/NG POC testing in a remote setting in Australia or elsewhere.The study is limited by the sample size (18 interviews); however, participant recruitment continued to the point of data saturation and we sampled to achieve diversity in demographics, expertise and jurisdiction.Qualitative methods are well suited to open ended enquiry or exploratory research where little is known about the phenomena under study and many of the issues identified here may have been missed if quantitative methods had been used.BackgroundA key public health strategy for the control of Chlamydia trachomatis (CT) and Neisseria gonorrhoeae (NG) is the provision of accurate testing and timely treatment through primary c