GeneXpert test cartridge being used to test a sample of suspected TB in MSF’s lab at Bangassou Hospital, Central African Republic, 2017. Photo credit: Borja Ruiz Rodriguez/MSF
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Poland: Institute of Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases writes to Danaher to reduce the price of GeneXpert test

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Photo credit: Borja Ruiz Rodriguez/MSF

The Institute of Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases of Poland, which has been facing an increase in drug-resistant TB burden due to an influx of people fleeing Ukraine, sent this open letter to the corporation Danaher, and its subsidiary diagnostics test maker Cepheid, requesting a reduction in the price of the GeneXpert test for extensively drug-resistant TB (Xpert MTB/XDR), so that more people can be properly diagnosed and receive timely treatment.