Version 1
: Received: 19 June 2023 / Approved: 20 June 2023 / Online: 20 June 2023 (05:17:19 CEST)
How to cite:
Anyaduba, T.; Irechukwu, O.; Anyaduba, U. Infectious Disease Diagnostic Technologies for People Living in Extreme Poverty: An Unmet Need. Preprints2023, 2023061389. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202306.1389.v1
Anyaduba, T.; Irechukwu, O.; Anyaduba, U. Infectious Disease Diagnostic Technologies for People Living in Extreme Poverty: An Unmet Need. Preprints 2023, 2023061389. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202306.1389.v1
Anyaduba, T.; Irechukwu, O.; Anyaduba, U. Infectious Disease Diagnostic Technologies for People Living in Extreme Poverty: An Unmet Need. Preprints2023, 2023061389. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202306.1389.v1
APA Style
Anyaduba, T., Irechukwu, O., & Anyaduba, U. (2023). Infectious Disease Diagnostic Technologies for People Living in Extreme Poverty: An Unmet Need. Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202306.1389.v1
Chicago/Turabian Style
Anyaduba, T., Obiageli Irechukwu and Uchechukwu Anyaduba. 2023 "Infectious Disease Diagnostic Technologies for People Living in Extreme Poverty: An Unmet Need" Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202306.1389.v1
Abstract
Diagnostics is believed to drive about 70% of medical interventions, but this may not be true for all demographics. With more than 30% of the African population living in extreme poverty ($1.9 per day - 2022); and healthcare costs competing unfavorably against unbridled access to antibiotics and herbal concoctions, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa, how do you convince such a people to choose diagnostics first? More importantly, how do you design a medical device targeted at meeting the diagnostic needs of this demographic? In developing diagnostic devices for such a market, what is worth sacrificing? How dire is the need for advanced technologies in devices developed for such a demographic? These are questions that remain unaddressed by the technological breakthroughs and current research in medical device development, especially for infectious disease diagnostics. The objective of this paper is to underscore critical concerns which must be considered in the bid to successfully design medical diagnostic devices for Africa and perhaps, other limited-resource settings. It is also written as a suggestive guidance document for researchers whose interest is in the development of infectious disease diagnostic platforms for rural Africa and similar limited-resource environments.
Keywords
Diagnostics; Lower and Middle-Income Countries; Extreme Poverty; Limited-resource settings; infectious diseases; Africa; Sub-Saharan Africa; Nigeria; Antimicrobial; poverty; paper devices; mobile phone; smartphones; microfluidics; multiplexing; inexpensive diagnostics; medical devices; repairability
Subject
Public Health and Healthcare, Other
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