Self-Testing Takes Center Stage: The AtomoRapid test platform could change self-testing on a global scale

摘要

Public health agencies like the World Health Organization (WHO) and United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have started to appreciate the need for point-of-care and self-test diagnostics programs to help reach people who don't have access to health screening facilities. According to a recent WHO study, as HIV self-testing is increasingly being sought and offered globally, there remains limited information about the required test features that will make a self-test easy to use, acceptable to users, and feasible for manufacturers to produce. The challenge is that many self-test kits are not user friendly enough to be deployed in these areas of the world.