Ready access to diagnostic tests that work well under remote field conditions is a major barrier to improving the health of people in the developing world. Here, Curtis Chin and his colleagues have developed a chip-based, microfluidic device and handheld reader for the simultaneous and rapid diagnosis of HIV and syphilis that uses only 1 μl of unprocessed whole blood and that was successfully field tested in Rwanda.
- Curtis D Chin
- Tassaneewan Laksanasopin
- Samuel K Sia