DRUG QUALITY AND DISSOLUTION TESTING AT ALL POINTS IN THE SUPPLY CHAIN: INTEGRATION OF SCALABLE TECHNOLOGY IN THE HEALTH SYSTEM

• In: C5 - Short oral presentations – focus on science & industry on Wednesday, 30 September 2015, 14:30-17:30
• At: Düsseldorf (Germany) (2015)
• Type: Presentation
• By: HO, Nga (Boston University, Biomedical Engineering, Boston, United States)
• Co-author(s): Nga Ho
  
• Abstract:

  The WHO estimates that 10-30% of pharmaceuticals worldwide are poor quality. Unfortunately, existing tools are too cumbersome, expensive or qualitative and hence ill-suited for point-of-care medicine testing

  We developed a luminescent assay to quantify Artesunate (ATS) in monotherapies. Further, we field-tested PharmaChk in Ghana using ATS samples

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