Antenatal Screening Kit: Extremely Affordable Maternal and Newborn Screening Kit
Each year, 6.3 million pregnant women and newborns die due to complications from pregnancy and childbirth. A staggering 99 percent of maternal deaths occur in developing countries and many could have been prevented with basic interventions had their conditions been diagnosed in a timely manner. The limiting factor in these resource-constrained settings is the inability to screen for these common conditions. Currently available tests for these conditions are too expensive for widespread use in developing countries. The Antenatal Screening Kit consists of extremely inexpensive urine and blood tests for use by semi-trained healthcare workers in developing countries The tests use commercially available reagents delivered through an innovative pen platform that brings the cost of a single test down from 50 cents to 1/3 of a cent.
Sponsor
Clinical Advisor
- Dr. Harshad Sanghvi, Vice President & Medical Director, Jhpiego
Graduate Student Team Members
- Maxim Budyansky
- Sherri Hall
- Mathew Means
- Sean Monagle
- Shishira Nagesh
- Mary O'Grady
- Peter Truskey
- James Waring
Additional Information
- 2011 Johns Hopkins University Business Plan Competition - 1st Place (Tie-Social Enterprise)
- 2011 ABC Save a Life Video Project - Winner
- 2011 NCIIA Open Minds Competition - 1st Place (Exhibition)
- 2011 Wake Forest University Business Plan Competition - 4th Place
- 2011 Rice University Social Venture Award Recipient
- 2011 Rice University Business Plan Competition - Semi-Finalist
- 2011 Rice University NCIIA Workshop Award Recipient
- 2011 Rice University FLS Consulting Award Receipient
- 2011 NCIIA E-Team Grant Recipient
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