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GENEVA, Jan. 22 (Xinhua) Unitaid, a global health initiative that works with partners to bring about innovations to prevent, diagnose and treat major diseases in low and middle income countries (LMICs), and the Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics (FIND) on Friday announced that they have finalized an agreement to cut in half the costs of antigen-detecting rapid diagnostic tests. In a media statement released Friday, Unitaid and FIND also declared that they will increase capacity to produce 264 million test kits during the coming 12 months. The announcement said that the move will bring the price of these tests from five U.S. dollars to 2.5 each, as well as increase supply of those tests for LMICs.