Improving the development and deployment of Rapid Diagnostic Tests in LMICs

*Please note, this event is available to attend by invitation only.*

Rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) offer a significant opportunity to improve healthcare provision in low and middle-income countries (LMICs), for infectious and non-communicable diseases. 

They are revolutionising how disease is diagnosed and treated, and are helping to deliver higher standards of healthcare and greater efficiency across public and private health care sectors as well as at the community level.

However, for them to be optimally useful they need to be readily available, perform well and health workers who use them must be trained appropriately. Achieving this is dependent on barriers to development and deployment being identified and addressed, and all members of the community working collaboratively to support the process from discovery to deployment.

To address these challenges, the Academy of Medical Sciences, in collaboration with the InterAcademy Partnership for Health (IAP for Health), is convening a one-day policy workshop on RDTs, chaired by Professor Sanjeev Krishna FMedSci.

For more information on this work, please visit our policy page.