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BRCCH EDCTP Outreach - Improving Access to SARS-CoV-2 Screening and Testing through Community-based COVID-19 Case-Finding and the Use of Digital Solutions in Lesotho and Zambia

  • Funded by Botnar Research Centre for Child Health (BRCCH)
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Key facts

  • Disease

    COVID-19

  • Start & end year

    2021
    2022

  • Funder

    Botnar Research Centre for Child Health (BRCCH)

  • Principal Investigator

    Klaus Reither

  • Research Location

    Lesotho, Zambia

  • Lead Research Institution

    Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute

  • Research Priority Alignment

    N/A

  • Research Category

    Pathogen: natural history, transmission and diagnostics

  • Research Subcategory

    Diagnostics

  • Special Interest Tags

    N/A

  • Study Type

    Non-Clinical

  • Clinical Trial Details

    N/A

  • Broad Policy Alignment

    Pending

  • Age Group

    Unspecified

  • Vulnerable Population

    Unspecified

  • Occupations of Interest

    Unspecified

Abstract

In a collaboration between teams in Lesotho and Zambia, Dr Klaus Reither (Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, BRCCH) and Dr Kwame Shanaube (Zambart, EDCTP) will investigate the effects of community-led interventions, rapid point-of-care diagnostics and swab self-collection in mitigating the COVID-19 epidemic in these African nations. The project will be carried out by a 14-member consortium, including collaborators based at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, SolidarMed, FIND and KNCV Tuberculosis Foundation.