Highlights from our live demonstration of point-of-care hepatitis C and hepatitis B diagnostic tests.
The very successful Conference on Liver Disease in Africa (COLDA) took place on 6 - 8 September 2019 in Cairo, Egypt.
This video presents the FIND symposium on available diagnostic technologies for hepatitis B and hepatitis C that took place during the 2019 edition of the Conference on Liver Disease in Africa (COLDA). The symposium was an opportunity for participants to learn more about the importance of diagnostics and to get firsthand introductions to several point-of-care molecular diagnostics platforms. These platforms represent the latest in terms of nucleic acid amplification assays and allow for faster time-to-diagnosis.
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