These technologies are majorly for the benefit of poorer sections of people from remote locations across the world
UNITAID aims to revolutionise the HIV/AIDS response in low-income countries by investments in new and advanced HIV diagnostics for patients in the remote communities. It will be announcing its investments in these “point-of-care” HIV diagnostics on July 23 at the International Aids Conference. UNITAID is implementing these projects with Médecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), UNICEF and the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI).
The partners will outline UNITAID’s market intervention approach which will be used to accelerate market entry and reduce the price of technologies, thereby moving HIV diagnostics away from centralised testing facilities and closer to the point of patient care. Experts would also talk about how these devices about these devises would improve diagnosis, treatment and care of persons living with HIV and discuss their suitability for resource-limited settings.
The International AIDS Conference will be held at Washington DC’s E.Washington Convention Centre, on Monday, July 23, 2012. The speakers at the event are as follows
- Denis Broun, Executive Director, UNITAID
- Teri Roberts, Diagnostics Advisor, MSF Access Campaign
- Craig McClure, Chief, HIV/AIDS Section, UNICEF
- David Ripin, Executive Vice President of Access Programs and Chief Scientific Officer, CHAI
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