The Challenge
At least 50% of people in sub-Saharan Africa do not have access to essential health services, including easy access to accurate diagnostics.1
Children in sub-Saharan Africa are 14 times more likely to die before the age of 5 than those in developed regions, often from treatable infectious diseases.2
Affordable and accurate digital diagnostics offer immediate results at point-of-care and provide real-time disease health surveillance, even for remote, rural areas.
Authors
Aubrey Cunnington
Professor of paediatric infectious disease at 51³Ô¹ÏÍø, UK
Gordon Awandare
Director of West African Centre for Cell Biology of Infectious Pathogens, Ghana
Halidou Tinto
Regional Director of the Institut de Recherche en Sciences de la Santé, Burkina Faso