Health monitoring in resource-limited settings

The types of tests used to monitor health can be expensive. Alternative ways of assessing patient health and making decisions about treatment and care are an important aspect of health care in resource-limited settings. This can include taking a detailed patient history and performing a physical examination.

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  • Computer models predict how patients will respond to HIV drugs

    Results of a new study demonstrate that computer models can predict how HIV patients whose drug therapy is failing will respond to a new treatment. Crucially for patients in poorer countries, the models do not require the results of expensive drug resistance tests to make their predictions. The study also showed that the models were able to identify alternative drug combinations that were predicted to work in cases where the treatment used in the clinic had failed, suggesting that their use could avoid treatment failure.

    14 March 2013 | Eurekalert Inf Dis

  • MSF research points to ways to expand viral load testing in developing countries

    At the 20th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) in Atlanta, the international medical humanitarian organization Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) presented data today on strategies to reduce the costs and complexity of rolling out routine viral load monitoring in developing countries.

    07 March 2013 | Médecins Sans Frontières press release

  • Alere to Develop Simple, Affordable Point-of-Care Nucleic Acid Test for Tuberculosis & Expand Manufacturing for POC HIV Viral Load Platform

    Alere Inc. announced that it has been awarded a grant of up to $21.6 million and debt financing of up to $20.6 million from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to support development of a point-of-care nucleic acid test for tuberculosis and to expand production facilities for this test and for a point-of-care viral load test.

    02 March 2013 | Alere

  • UNITAID-financed project to increase access to new HIV monitoring technology

    UNITAID and France Expertise Internationale (FEI) signed a US$ 2.4 million agreement to implement the “OPP-ERA” project which will stimulate the market entry of new manufacturers and suppliers of HIV Viral Load Test (VLT) technologies, bringing an innovative solution to meet the HIV monitoring and diagnostics needs in resource-limited settings.

    15 February 2013 | UNITAID

  • United States government announces $11 million in additional support for rapid TB test in 14 countries

    Countries receiving the rapid tests are: Côte d'Ivoire, DRC, Ethiopia, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe and Burma.

    06 December 2012 | PEPFAR press release

  • Paper Test Could Make Drug Treatment Safer

    Researchers looking to make tuberculosis (TB) and HIV treatment safer have developed a paper-based test for drug-induced liver damage.

    19 November 2012 | Asian Scientist Magazine

  • Trial of HIV test for babies in Africa could make a big difference

    The first-of-a-kind test will deliver a diagnosis in less than an hour while mother and child are still in the clinic -- and, if all goes well, could dramatically improve the rates in which infected infants are diagnosed and treated.The test is a miniaturized, inexpensive version of the p24 HIV test and is designed specifically for use in developing countries.

    29 October 2012 | Eurekalert Inf Dis

  • Point-of-Care CD4 Testing in Resource-Limited Settings

    Is CD4 Testing Outside of the Laboratory Ready for Prime Time?

    10 October 2012 | Medscape (requires registration)

  • Stamp-Sized Device Could Cut Liver Test Costs

    A paper-based device about the size of a postage stamp could improve testing for drug-induced liver toxicity in the developing world, researchers reported.

    21 September 2012 | MedPage Today HIV/AIDS

  • South Africa: Taking HIV Testing to Homes

    Home-based HIV testing, which enables people to have an HIV test in the privacy of their own home without having to go to a health facility, is one of the newest efforts to be introduced in South Africa to get people to know their HIV status.

    20 September 2012 | allAfrica.com
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