New project set to develop diagnostics for Sub-Saharan Africa

Researchers from the University of Glasgow are leading a new international project which aims to provide Sub-Saharan Africa with portable, reliable and affordable methods to diagnose diseases. The Digital Innovations and Diagnostics for Infectious Diseases in Africa project, or Didida, brings together 14 partners from eight countries: Kenya, Senegal, Tanzania, Uganda, the United Kingdom, France, the Netherlands, and Italy. It is supported by ¤6m (£5.2m) in funding from the European Union's Horizon Europe programme and ¤2m (£1.75m) from the UK Research and Innovation fund. The aim of the project is to develop a graduate school in Sub-Saharan Africa with a cohort of 16 PhD students, drawn from areas including digital innovations, social science and healthcare economics. Cohort events will provide this new generation of researchers with the tools to become leading contributors in the fight against diseases in Africa. The students will be part of a team which aims to develop innovations to improve the healthcare pathways of individuals in low-resource under-served rural communities using digital medicine and mobile diagnostics. The top five causes of death in Africa are related to communicable diseases: severe respiratory infections, HIV/AIDS, diarrhoea, malaria, and tuberculosis.
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