COVID Treatment Quick Start Learning Network Session II: COVID Testing and High Risk Populations
On February 15, 2023, the COVID Treatment Quick Start Learning Network meet for their second session, focused on COVID Testing and High Risk Populations.
Panelists included:
• Mr. Silver Mashate, Program Manager, African Society for Laboratory Medicine (ASLM)
• Dr. Alex Martin-Odoom, Clinton Health Access Initiative Ghana Senior Technical Advisor, COVID-19 Test and Treat
• Catherine Okoi, Senior Technical Advisor, Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, Federal Ministry of Health
This session included:
• An update on the current state of the COVID-19 pandemic, the generic antiviral market, as well as real-time lessons learned from Zambia on test and treat rollout
• Lessons learned on testing models to create demand in order to help countries prepare for the arrival of antivirals
The COVID Treatment Quick Start Learning Network will meet monthly and is open to all. The COVID Treatment Quick Start Consortium brings together Duke University, Americares, the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI), and COVID Collaborative as implementing partners, with support from the Open Society Foundations, Pfizer, and the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation. The consortium supports governments to introduce and scale up access to new and effective COVID-19 oral antiviral therapies in high-risk populations. Partner countries include Ghana, Kenya, Laos, Malawi, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.