Rajesh Anandan is Senior Vice President for Private Sector Partnerships & UNICEF Ventures at the U.S. Fund. He recently met with UNICEF partners at SOCAP 11 in San Francisco.
An infant born with HIV needs to be diagnosed and put on ARV treatment within 12 weeks of birth if she's to have a fighting chance of survival.
You can't test for HIV during the first 6 weeks after birth, and in rural Zambia, it can take another 12 weeks to get an HIV test result back to a new mother and her infant. That math is deadly.
- No hand held diagnostics
- No rapid HIV tests
- No supply chain
- No bandwidth