Our programs
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Today, FIND is organized into three main business units, each one targeted at a specific disease – tuberculosis, sleeping sickness and malaria. Projects are managed within these units with the support of a number of cross-cutting functions dealing with technology platforms, project management systems, quality assurance and regulation, intellectual property management, contracting and business development, and policy and access. An additional unit focuses on the development of laboratory capacity, an essential element in the application of many of our diagnostic solutions.
We are now implementing more than 37 projects in our three major disease areas. Our project management system follows best industry practices with each project being structured into phases and milestones which require detailed and documented evidence of the attainment of pre-defined targets. Most projects entail the development and/or validation of in vitro diagnostic (IVD) products. These projects begin with the concept phase and progress through feasibility, evaluation, and demonstration, and end with access and impact in the public health sector.