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From:	Gabriel ADEYEMO [ profile ]
Subject:	Tanzania: Government recalls faulty HIV test kits
Sent:	Jan 20th, 2012 - 02:40:26

	SOURCE:* IRIN/PlusNews* http://www.plusnews.org/Report.aspx?Reportid=94592 Dear GYCAers, I just hope our government's negligence will not increase our rate of new HIV infections..... Tanzanian health authorities have announced the withdrawal of a South Korean HIV test kit from circulation following warnings about its poor quality. In November, the UN World Health Organization removed the Standard Diagnostics Bioline HIV 1/2 3.0 Rapid HIV Test Kit from its list of approved rapid test kits with immediate effect; the alert was issued after Bioline failed quality assurance tests. The Tanzanian government has followed neighbouring Kenya in issuing an immediate recall of all Bioline testing kits in the country. "What we know so far is that 1,178 test kits have been used in the field, but we have yet to substantiate exactly how many of them were defective," Hadji Mponda, Tanzania's Health Minister, said at a news conference on 5 January. Please click on the link above to continue reading. -- Many Thanks Yours' in Prevention Science Gabriel, ADEYEMO Regional Focal Point - West Africa Global Youth Coalition on HIV/AID (GYCA) +234-80-6798-7317 \| gabriel (at) gyca.org www.gyca.org \| www.tigweb.org GYCA is a youth-led global network of over 6,000 young leaders and adult allies working on youth and HIV/AIDS in 173 countries world-wide. GYCA's mission is to empower young leaders with the skills, knowledge, resources and opportunities they need to scale up HIV/AIDS interventions amongst their peers. Universal Access is possible; * Zero new HIV infections. Zero discrimination and Zero AIDS-related deaths.*

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