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 Imperial College London, 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