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WHO Published its 1st Essential Diagnostic List Details, Aim, Purpose, Significance
WHO Published its 1st Essential Diagnostic List- Details, Aim, Purpose, Significance
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has published its first Essential Diagnostics List, a catalog of tests needed to diagnose most common diseases along with a number of global priority diseases.
The WHO Essential Diagnostic list aims to cater people’s inability to access diagnostic services, which results in them from receiving the correct treatment.
WHO- Essential Diagnostics List
Essential Diagnostics list concentrates on in-vitro tests like tests of blood and urine.
Essential Diagnostics list comprises a total of 113 products which contains 58 tests for detection and diagnosis of a wide range of common conditions. ‘Apart from this, 55 tests for detection, diagnosis and monitoring of priority diseases such as tuberculosis, malaria, HIV, hepatitis B and C, syphilis and human papillomavirus.
Essential Diagnostics will also provide links to WHO guidelines or publications and to pre-qualified products. WHO will update its list on regular basis and will also issue a call for applications to add categories to next edition.
Essential Diagnostics List will provide a uniform tool that can be useful to all countries, not only to test and treat health complications better but also to use health funds more efficiently by concentrating on the truly essential tests
