{"id":5252,"date":"2019-09-11T10:39:15","date_gmt":"2019-09-11T07:39:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=5252"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:32","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:32","slug":"new-portable-technology-aims-to-boost-hiv-diagnosis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/09\/11\/new-portable-technology-aims-to-boost-hiv-diagnosis\/","title":{"rendered":"New Portable Technology Aims To Boost HIV Diagnosis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>By Sarah Ooko<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\ndiagnostic tool, which was recently pre-qualified or approved by the World\nHealth Organization (WHO), is expected to improve early HIV infant diagnosis by\nreducing the turnaround time for results.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An evaluation study for digital technology, involving 451 children was conducted by the Kenya Medical Research Institute (Kemri) between 2017 and 2019 in various hospitals across the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\nresearch revealed that M-PIMA can give accurate HIV results for infants within\n70 minutes, compared to the currently used gold standard test which takes\nbetween three and 10 days\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessdailyafrica.com\/lifestyle\/fitness\/New-portable-technology-aims-to-boost-HIV-diagnosis\/4258372-5268044-3ib4t\/index.html\">Read\nmore&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Sarah Ooko The diagnostic tool, which was recently pre-qualified or approved by the World Health Organization (WHO), is expected to improve early HIV infant diagnosis by reducing the turnaround&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5253,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5252\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}