RESEARCH PRIORITY

Health resilience

Local health systems need technologies suited to the people they serve.

SDG 3Good Health and Well-beingSDG 6Clean Water and Sanitation

Area 1 of 4 · Proposed research direction

Urinary schistosomiasis diagnostics

Endemic districts in Nigeria and Côte d’Ivoire

Thematic alignment assessed by Axum; not an endorsement or funding commitment from the United Nations.

Research question

Can a field diagnostic preserve accuracy beyond the site where it was developed?

Product direction

A maintainable sample-preparation and imaging device.

What needs to be established

Evaluate low-intensity infections with clinical partners and an appropriate laboratory reference.

Evidence and further reading

Multi-contrast diagnostics · PLOS 2025

The source provides context or existing research. The proposed product direction is an Axum discovery hypothesis, not a finding that a new invention is patentable.

AXUM FUNDING

Funding allocated to this research area

Not yet reported

No verified Axum allocation has been published for urinary schistosomiasis diagnostics. This is not a statement that funding is zero.

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