Rethinking access to medicines: towards a refined legal framework for medicine shortages KU Leuven
Rethinking access to medicines: towards a refined legal framework for medicine shortages
Rethinking access to medicines: towards a refined legal framework for medicine shortages
CoVid-19 patient diagnosis is currently performed almost exclusively by qPCR-based approaches. This is leading to a world wide restraint on patient testing and a global shortage in reagents required for such assays. We here propose to detect corona proteins instead, using mass spectrometry. We have already proved its applicability, and now need to scale up the assay.
Nasopharyngeal swabs are recommended for the molecular diagnosis of COVID-19 but offer disadvantages such as dire shortage. Therefore, we aim to validate saliva as an alternative specimen. We further plan to design a saliva pooling strategy as a part of a diagnostic tool for largescale
real-time epidemiological testing. Such strategy will be of value in the management of current pandemic.
Shortage on water provision, poor/inexistent water sanitation, and the resulting waterborne diseases is a latent problem in rural areas in Ecuador. The present proposal aims to develop a decentralized water technology that fulfill the needs of water sanitation, and by complementary application of in-situ produced disinfectant, partially provide safe water. The project will be aligned with local entities for integral management.