Health Targets For Improvement In The Developing World
Millions of people in developing countries die each year from diseases that are preventable or treatable and three diseases alone, AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria kill over five million annually.
But the standard diagnostic test for TB misses half of all cases. In the Commentary, the 51 members of the forum identify one or two points along the path of disease progression where a diagnostic could have the most impact, assuming that access to treatment is also available. They look at outcomes across a range of healthcare settings, including those with virtually no infrastructure, and predict how many lives could be saved if diagnostics were in place for each of six diseases.
The Forum concludes that effective diagnostic tools combined with access to treatment can have a dramatic improvement on global health.
Published alongside this issue is a supplement that is a result of a collaboration between the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the RAND Corporation. The supplement is published by Nature Publishing Group and will be circulated with Nature, Nature Medicine, Nature Biotechnology and Nature Reviews Microbiology.
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