Fighting Drug Resistant TB in Africa with Genomics

New Web Hosting Pioneer Emerges, Offering Affordable Hosting Solutions Coupled with…March) is urging for a rapid increase to the access and uptake of targeted next-generation sequencing which is transforming the fight against drug-resistant TB in Africa.

Recommended by the World Health Organization, targeted Next Generation Sequencing promises greater accuracy and speed in identifying drug-resistant TB. This is beneficial to regional TB programs in Africa as it can ultimately reduce the risk of transmission and give information on which strains of bacteria are circulating—and where, for instance, drug-resistant ones are expanding.

“We also recently launched the Illumina Global Health Access Initiative to drive equitable access to our technology through the provision of discounted prices for a range of sequencing applications, including drug resistance profiling in tuberculosis,” Ms Ngongo said.

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