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Advocacy for TB POC Diagnostic Javid Syed TB/HIV 15th Core Group Meeting Nov 3-4, 2009. Geneva

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Page 1: Advocacy for TB POC Diagnostic Javid Syed TB/HIV 15th Core Group Meeting Nov 3-4, 2009. Geneva

Advocacy for TB POC Diagnostic

Javid SyedTB/HIV 15th Core Group Meeting

Nov 3-4, 2009. Geneva

Page 2: Advocacy for TB POC Diagnostic Javid Syed TB/HIV 15th Core Group Meeting Nov 3-4, 2009. Geneva

Why?

Page 3: Advocacy for TB POC Diagnostic Javid Syed TB/HIV 15th Core Group Meeting Nov 3-4, 2009. Geneva

Why?

• The clinic and health post serve 60%, Peripheral health centers serve 25%, and Referral laboratories serve 15%.

• Most diagnostic tools in the pipeline promise improvements for higher level health systems- MODS, Gene Xpert, MGIT. LED FM which is the one that is likely to improve diagnostics available at microscopy/clinic level services only promises 10% improvement.

Page 4: Advocacy for TB POC Diagnostic Javid Syed TB/HIV 15th Core Group Meeting Nov 3-4, 2009. Geneva

What is needed? Improved Coordination • Number of research efforts such as the Public Health Research Institute, FIND, and others have screened the entire TB proteome to identify and purify 19 priority target proteins.

• Biomarker identification work is being carried out at the Max Planck Institute, the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and New York University, among others.

• The biomarkers and technologies for detecting them must also be assessed.

Page 5: Advocacy for TB POC Diagnostic Javid Syed TB/HIV 15th Core Group Meeting Nov 3-4, 2009. Geneva

What is needed? Definition of POC Test Minimal Requirements. Criteria Minimum Specifications Required

Medical decision Treatment initiation

Sensitivity—adults (regardless of HIV status)

Pulmonary TB: Smear positive, culture positive: 95% Smear negative, culture positive: 60–80% (no agreement on a minimum) (Detection of extrapulmonary TB preferred but not required)

Sensitivity—children (regardless of HIV status)

80% compared to culture of any specimen and 60% of probable TB (noting the lack of a gold standard)

Sensitivity— extrapulmonary TB (regardless of HIV status)

80% compared to culture of any specimen and 60% of probable TB (noting the lack of a gold standard)

Specificity Adults: 95% compared to culture Children: 95% compared to culture 90% for culture negative, probable TB (noting the lack of a gold standard)

Time to results Maximum 3 hours (patient must same day results, desirable would be <15 minutes)

PIH, MSF and TAG Meeting on TB POC Meeting. March 17-18, 2009.

Page 6: Advocacy for TB POC Diagnostic Javid Syed TB/HIV 15th Core Group Meeting Nov 3-4, 2009. Geneva

• Improving Global Plan Research Component for new diagnostic tool (to adequately address basic science and implementation research needs)- Participating in rewriting the plans.

• Creating community demand for improved diagnostics- Advocacy trainings and TB Diagnostics Pipeline

• Assessing the need for sample banks, state of research for biomarker and antigens useful for POC diagnostics, and technology platforms- TAG, MSF, and STBP contract with Imperial College

What is needed? Advocating to address the bottlenecks.

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What is needed? Addressing the funding shortfall. In 2007 was 12% of total TB funding- TB R&D Report: 2005-2008.

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Advocacy Strategy

• Needs to be evidence based.• Needs to happen on all levels- build ground up

advocacy demand for improved diagnostics while also creating a national and global environment that will expedite research.

• Advocacy should target specific bottlenecks that impede POC diagnostic research- funding, specimen banks, coordination between research efforts.