An open-access virtual #biobank now connects researchers with institutions around the world 🌎🌍🌏 storing samples to speed up #NTDdiagnostics development.
➡️Register your samples on the #DxConnect Virtual Biobank & spread the word: finddx.org/biobank-servic…
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FIND
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Working to drive equitable access to reliable diagnosis around the world through collective action. #DiagnosisForAll
- Advances in #digitalhealth, coupled with community-based approaches, can help step up testing to contain outbreaks. Learn about our pilot project in South Africa🇿🇦 with @ezintsha, where we used #rapidtests & digital health tools for testing at taxi ranks🚐
- 🚨#COVID19 #diagnostic evaluation update🚨 26 antibody-detection RDTs have been selected for 1st round performance evaluation, alongside the 5 antigen-detection RDTs already announced. Results will be shared as soon as they are available. Details here ➡️ finddx.org/covid-19/sarsc…
- We are excited to welcome Dr Ayoade (Yodi) Alakija (@yodifiji) as new Chair of our Board, alongside Soumya Swaminathan (@doctorsoumya) and Malebona Precious Matsoso as new Board members. Read the press release: bit.ly/3je3vph @ACTAccelerator
- This week, as @G20org and @G7 discuss pandemic preparedness, FIND's @sanjaysarin joined G20 health ministers and @DrTedros in #Indonesia. 1/2
- 📢 New call for partners: We are seeking proposals from manufacturers of continuous glucose monitoring devices (CGMs) not commercialized in Kenya and South Africa for product evaluation and market introduction. 📆 Apply by 2 March 2023 at 23:59 CET. ⤵️ finddx.org/about-us/donor…
- We are excited to welcome @IfedayoTiffy as our new Chief Transformation Officer! With a background in global health and infectious disease control, Dr Adetifa will be overseeing CEO responsibilities and driving diagnostic innovation for all. 🔗
- Our Board Chair Dr Ayoade Alakija, @yodifiji, is speaking at Davos today. Follow #WEF24 for updates on boosting sustainable financing for #GlobalHealth, responding to the #AntimicrobialResistance crisis and ensuring equitable access to lifesaving #tests, treatments, and vaccines.
- Working from home and #physicallyapart but that doesn’t stop us from being united in our fight against TB. #ItsTimeToEndTB #WorkFromHome #SociallyConnected #WorldTBDay @StopTB @TBAlliance @resultsuk @ResultsCda @WHO @IAVI @TBVI_EU @G_C_T_A @TAGTeam_Tweets @CHAI_health @APPGTB
- Exciting news! Today we announced the launch of malaria-LAMP: the 1st molecular #diagnostic test to detect #malaria caused by P. vivax parasites, which can be used even in low-transmission settings. Developed by EIKEN with exclusive distribution by HUMAN. finddx.org/publication/pr…
- Congratulations #Uganda for having eliminated #HumanAfricanTrypanosomiasis (#HAT), commonly known as #sleepingsickness. The use of new #diagnostic tools, as well as the control measures & political commitment, made this historic achievement possible.
- Pleased to announce that we just signed a US$14.5 M grant with @Unitaid to evaluate next-generation sequencing for rapid diagnosis of DR-TB (Seq&Treat) in resource-limited settings. Read our press release: bit.ly/2FRLlCR #DiagnosisMatters
- Warm congratulations to Prof. Joseph Ndung'u, Head of Neglected Tropical Diseases at FIND & @DiscoverJKUAT University Chancellor, on receiving the @_AfricanUnion's prestigious Excellence Award 2019 in recognition of his work on new #diagnostics tools. bit.ly/2Mmstyf
- 📢Hot off the press! The @StopTB Partnership's New Diagnostics Working Group and @WHO launched a framework today for the evaluation of new tests for #tuberculosis infection: bit.ly/3gasuD9
















