📋 Tender Overview
Development And Validation Of ‘Findtb’, A Novel Digital Tool For Tuberculosis Triage In Children - Using Innovative Methodologies And An Interdisciplinary Approach
Objective
About 50-65% of children suffering from tuberculosis (TB) across all age groups are never detected. This contributes to the 250,000 deaths from TB in children annually, making the disease one of the top ten killers of children under the age of five. To improve TB detection in children and reduce TB-related morbidity and mortality, novel diagnostic tests are urgently needed. The Find-TB project aims to address this urgent need by improving case finding at all levels of care in resource-limited, high TB burden settings through the development and validation of an innovative, digital TB triage tool that provides individualized TB disease risk predictions coupled with clinical recommendations to guide next steps of care. The project will capitalize on digital and scientific innovations that have been successfully applied to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Funded Under
European Research Council (Erc)
Total Cost
€ 1 999 788,00
Eu Contribution
€ 1 999 788,00
Coordinated By
Universitatsklinikum Heidelberg
Germany
