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Workplan |
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Partnerships
SDI provides a
forum to stimulate and facilitate public-private partnerships in the development
and evaluation of STI diagnostics appropriate for use in primary health care settings in
developing countries.
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Diagnostics
discovery
research and development
- Priority
setting for STI diagnostic research
- Development
of mathematical models to estimate required test performance
Establishment
of reference centres to support evaluation of STI diagnostics
- Provision of
SDI site support through training and quality assurance
- Participation
in the selection of
laboratory and field evaluation sites
- Validation of
serum panels for syphilis test evaluation
- Participartion
in STI diagnostics evaluation
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Laboratory
based evaluations
- Selection of
sites for diagnostics evaluation
- Development
of consensus evaluation protocols
- Site training
in the principles and practice of good laboratory practice (GLP)
- Development
of evaluation monitoring and quality assurance procedures
Field
trials
- Selection of field sites for evaluation of rapid tests
- Site
preparation
- Good Clinical Practice (GCP) workshops
- data management training
- proficiency validation
- Evaluation of
test performance of rapid diagnostics for three priority STIs
Establishment
of quality standards
- Best practice
guidelines for rapid STI diagnostic test evaluation
Specimen
bank
- Development
of a bank of reference sera for syphilis diagnostics
Communications:
- SDI website
development
- electronic
news letters
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