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    • The Joint Steering Committee of the SMART4TB, DriveDx4TB, FEND-TB and R2D2 TB Network projects will coordinate the evaluation of new TB diagnostic tools, in settings of intended use such as the Ifakara Health Institute in the Kilombero region of Tanzania, a high-burden TB country. (c) FIND / Adam Penn-Nicholson
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Major boost to progress in tuberculosis testing on World Tuberculosis (TB) Day as diagnostics partners bring together SMART4TB, DriveDx4TB, FEND-TB and R2D2 TB Network projects

The SMART4TB, DriveDx4TB, FEND-TB and R2D2 TB Network projects to form the largest-ever coordinated effort to accelerate TB diagnostic development

Collaboration agreement unveiled between SMART4TB, DriveDx4TB, FEND-TB and the R2D2 TB Network, representing the largest-ever coordinated effort to accelerate TB diagnostic development; memorandum of understanding signed between FIND (https://www.FINDdx.org/) and the Johns Hopkins University, with agreements also in place with the University of California San Francisco (UCSF), Rutgers University and…

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    • The KILELE Health Association and FIND teams are working together to convene a community coalition to increase access to life-saving cervical cancer screening in sub-Saharan Africa
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FIND and KILELE Health Association convene community coalition to increase access to life-saving cervical cancer screening in sub-Saharan Africa

The newly announced coalition benefits from an existing network that is already operating to drive action against cancer and HIV in high-burden countries in Africa and will expand coverage to reach all eligible women

A new coalition of community-based organizations will identify the barriers to screening and shape solutions that meet the needs of women in sub-Saharan Africa. This initiative is a key part of FIND’s (https://www.FINDdx.org/) Women’s Health programme, which is supported by the Governments of Canada and Netherlands. Announcement made on International Women’s…

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    • A health worker is testing an infant for sleeping sickness in Uganda. Image credit: FIND
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On World Neglected Tropical Disease (NTD) Day, over US$7 million new funding announced to expand efforts towards sleeping sickness elimination in nine African nations

The funding will support cost-effective, sustainable strategies to develop and maintain post-elimination surveillance programmes

New funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will build on the success of the Trypa-NO! partnership – a project led by FIND (https://www.FINDdx.org), the French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development (IRD), and the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) – that has supported Chad, Côte d’Ivoire, Guinea…

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FIND and Kenya Medical Research Institute Celebrate Collaborative Research as FIND Kenya Office Commissioned

The FIND Kenya office is housed in the Nairobi headquarters of the Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI)

Ag. Director General of KEMRI, Professor Sam Kariuki commissioned the FIND (www.Finddx.org) Kenya office, which is hosted in KEMRI headquarters, noting that the launch was a critical moment that celebrates collaborative research; A ribbon-cutting ceremony was held last Thursday, attended by Professor Joseph Ndung’u, Executive Director of FIND in Kenya,…

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Diagnostic testing is fundamental to our future with COVID-19 (By Kekeletso Kao & Yenew Kebede Tebeje)

As African leaders gather in Kigali at the second annual international Conference on Public Health in Africa next week to discuss the future of pandemic preparedness and post-pandemic recovery, we may be facing our first true test of whether we are ready to live with COVID-19

By Kekeletso Kao, Senior Manager, Access at FIND (www.FINDdx.org), the global alliance for diagnostics and Yenew Kebede Tebeje, Head of Division of Laboratory Systems and Ag. Head of Division, Surveillance & Disease Intelligence at Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention. Although it seems we have weathered the worst of the…

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    • Dr Sergio Carmona, Chief Medical Officer of FIND, the global alliance for diagnostics and Dr Princess Nono Simelela, Special Advisor to the World Health Organization's DG on Strategic Priorities
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Saving women’s lives: the time is now to defeat Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and cervical cancer together (By Sergio Carmona & Princess Nono Simelela)

Women living with HIV are six times more likely to develop cervical cancer than those living without

By Dr Sergio Carmona, Chief Medical Officer of FIND (https://www.FINDdx.org), the global alliance for diagnostics and Dr Princess Nono Simelela, Special Advisor to the World Health Organization's DG on Strategic Priorities, including Cervical Cancer Elimination. Women and girls in sub-Saharan Africa accounted for two out of every three (https://bit.ly/2xN4hOv) new…

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West African Countries Come Together to Accelerate Access to Essential Diagnostics Across the Region

Fifteen West African nations were represented at a regional, first-of-its-kind event to support the development and uptake of national Essential Diagnostics Lists (EDLs), as a critical step towards universal health coverage

FIND (www.FINDdx.org), the global alliance for diagnostics, and the African Society for Laboratory Medicine (ASLM), in collaboration with Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), hosted representatives from 15 West African nations with the aim of accelerating access to essential diagnostics across the region. The first-of-its-kind event, held in…

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FIND to share COVID-19 testing experience with the President of Tanzania and other global health experts at the World Innovation Summit for Health (WISH)

WISH is a global summit organized biannually by the Qatar Foundation, bringing together leading experts and decision makers to address pressing global health challenges

FIND (www.FINDdx.org) Chief Access Officer will join a discussion with H.E. Samia Suluhu Hassan, President of the United Republic of Tanzania and other distinguished panellists, calling on governments and decision makers to prioritize local manufacturing capacity as a key part of their pandemic preparedness and resilience planning; the session will take…