Project description
The future of digital diagnostics in Africa
Africa is struggling with a massive health burden due to infectious diseases. There is also a wide gap between diagnostic need and provision. Large proportions of the population in many African countries do not have access to healthcare facilities with high-quality diagnostics. In this context, the EU-funded DI-DIDA project will boost Africa’s technology development in diagnostics and digital technologies that bring the laboratory to the point of interaction. Digital diagnostics can provide rapid, cheap, connected point-of-care tests. Bringing together partners from four sub-Saharan African countries (Kenya, Senegal, Tanzania and Uganda) and the EU, the project will design an innovative low-cost diagnostic and digital/mobile health decision-support technology and integrate it into existing African digital health infrastructure. Work will include fundamental research and 16 PhD students.
Objective
The DI-DIDA project's overall objective is to tackle poverty-related infectious diseases in sub-Saharan Africa and African islands by i) strengthening the African research capacities, ii) enhancing technology development in diagnostics and digital technologies in Africa, and iii) encouraging adoption of innovations by sub-Saharan health authorities, clinicians, businesses, and patients. For that, the consortium includes leading partners from four sub-Saharan African countries (Kenya, Senegal, Tanzania, and Uganda), one from African Islands (Réunion), and the EU. To reach our objectives, we will implement a combination of complementary actions: - Joint research projects on infectious diseases co-morbidities, human-livestock interactions, infectious diseases diagnostic technologies, digital health solutions for Africa, and socio-economic factors of innovation adoption by African people. - The co-development of an innovative low-cost diagnostic and digital/mHealth decision support technology and its integration into existing African digital health infrastructure. - Clinical trials. - A PhD fellowship for students in Africa with joint PhD awarding by EU counterparts. - Research capacity building (management, grant writing, publications etc.) - Staff exchanges. - Training. - Organisation of citizen and brokerage events targeting businesses and policy makers. - A comprehensive dissemination, exploitation, and communication action plan. The impact of this project will be: - Improved research / technology development and manufacturing /clinical trials capacities in sub-Saharan Africa. - New knowledge gained on several topics related with poverty-related infectious diseases. - Increased international networks and reinforcement of the collaboration between Africa and the EU. - A new low-cost diagnostics and decision support technology developed and its adoption fostered by dedicated studies and collaboration with health authorities. - Better informed sub-Saharan populations about infectious diseases.
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HORIZON.2.1 - Health
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HORIZON.2.1.4 - Infectious Diseases, including poverty-related and neglected diseases
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HORIZON-RIA - HORIZON Research and Innovation Actions
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(opens in new window) HORIZON-HLTH-2021-DISEASE-04
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91400 Orsay
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