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Global 7 diagnostics
Global 7 diagnostics











The key diagnostic achievements during COVID-19 are instructive: What has already been achievedĬlose collaboration among global health agencies like the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) and FIND, the global alliance for diagnostics, during the COVID-19 pandemic, alongside academia, industry, and national and global public health agencies, provided a roadmap for ultrafast development and distribution of both vaccines and diagnostic tests for future pathogens that threaten to overwhelm us the way SARS-CoV-2 has. Although getting all of this right in 100 days might seem like a tall order, with thorough preparation, investment, and readiness, we believe it is well within our grasp. Pandemic preparedness encompasses a comprehensive test-treat-vaccinate strategy, linking public health interventions and clinical care. Global equitable access to tests, vaccines and therapeutics is assured.Worldwide testing is accompanied by accelerated development of vaccines and therapeutics, which can be similarly rolled out in 100 days.Our testing systems are linked to rapid public health interventions, breaking chains of transmission in real time – and keeping our health systems from being overwhelmed.Manufacturing capacity is established globally, in a coordinated and distributive framework for rapid technology transfer to minimize over-reliance on any one source and keep supply pipelines open.

global 7 diagnostics

Point-of-care testing platforms are developed and rolled out worldwide to diagnose disease outbreaks as they happen.Enhanced surveillance systems are in place for early threat detection.This may sound like a lofty ambition, but it is achievable if: This is the 100 Days Mission – a plan for the world to be able to respond to and extinguish the global threat of the next Disease X within 100 days of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaring a major outbreak or pandemic. And the roughly $3 trillion economic impact of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic would have been dramatically reduced. Lockdowns would have been prevented or shortened.

global 7 diagnostics

In this scenario, hundreds of thousands of lives would have been saved.

global 7 diagnostics

Imagine that global manufacturing capacity and public health infrastructure were already in place, and the authorizations and programmes to get these vital tools quickly to those who needed them – in every country in the world – were finalized in days, rather than months. Imagine a world where, once SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, had been identified and sequenced, the rapid diagnostic tests, the treatments, and the vaccines we needed to respond were already available, requiring only minor adjustments before they could be rolled out at scale. Guest piece by Bill Rodriguez, CEO of FIND Preparing to face down the next Disease X













Global 7 diagnostics