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Uganda on Wednesday launched a rapid Covid-19 antibody test partly funded by France that developers hope to market in Sub-Saharan Africa, where the laboratory infrastructure needed for extensive novel coronavirus testing is thin.
The test, which requires a finger prick to draw blood, was developed by a team at Makerere, Uganda s oldest public university, with partial funding from the French embassy.
The East African country has long experience of infectious diseases like HIV and Ebola which it has drawn on to develop diagnostics expertise. This is a point-of-care test that can be used within equatorial African village settings, remote areas where there s no laboratory, there s no electricity, there s no expert, said Misaki Wayengera, a researcher at Makerere s department of pathology.