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That growth is likely to continue, driven by changes in healthcare delivery which are aimed at delivering less costly care closer to the patient’s home. In the developing world there is the challenge of more effective care for infectious diseases and PoCT may play a much greater role here in the future. PoCT technologies can be dividing into two categories: the first is small handheld devices, providing qualitative or quantitative determination of an increasing range of analytes. The technologies here are glucose biosensor strips and lateral flow strips using immobilised antibodies to determine a range of parameters including cardiac markers and infectious pathogens. The second categories of devices are larger, often bench-top devices which are essentially laboratory instruments which have been reduced in both size and complexity. These include critical care analysers and, more recently, small haematology and immunology analysers.

TH is the use of telecommunications and information technologies to connect people to healthcare across distance. Both synchronous (real-time) and asynchronous (store-and-forward) technologies allows for the distribution of electronic health information, services, and education between providers and patients and/or providers and providers (ATH, 2015). The use of telephone, Internet, interactive radio and video equipment, remote sensory devices or robotics are all tools of TH. Encompassing over 30 specialties including psychiatry, neurosurgery, dermatology, radiology, pharmacy and nutrition, the RHC-A is continuously working on testing and building its capabilities in terms of policies, processes, organization, products, and systems in order to provide safe, high quality care both in garrison and in deployed locations (RHC-A(P), 2016).

While a part of the American Armed Forces, this agency provides medical services and maintains records separately from the Department of Defenses. They utilize this data to track and monitor the health of their almost forty thousand members, who must be ready for worldwide deployments (Cummings, Mueller, & Quan, 2011). They have many small medical facilities all over the U.S., and medical date must safely store and accessible always. The agency must be able to know the location of the information while their members are deploying out of the country and around the U.S. This is important to

Malaria is one of the most significant infectious disease burdens worldwide. The disease especially targets the most vulnerable groups, namely infants and children, and accounts for approximately 20% of childhood deaths in Africa. Many people living in countries where malaria is endemic are unable to afford, or do not have access to, medications needed for treatment, which contributes to high morbidity and mortality. Furthermore, malaria has a devastating economic impact, with gross domestic products decreasing up to 1.3% in highly affected countries. The World Health Organization concluded through their research that malaria is the fifth biggest killer in sub-Saharan Africa.

Yellow fever is a viral tropical disease that is transmitted from infected mosquitos. It is primarily endemic in Africa and South America and while there are vaccinations to prevent contracting yellow fever, there is no known cure. The only treatment options are to combat the fever, muscle pain, and dehydration that result from the first and third stage of the disease. There have been no reported cases of yellow fever in 2014 in America and the country is considered a yellow fever free country; although there have been cases of it being brought back by unvaccinated tourists. Fifteen percent of patients with yellow fever progress to the more dangerous third stage of infection which involves: jaundice (yellowing of the skin), seizures, hemorrhaging, and high fevers with fatality rates around 50% according to WHO estimates. It is a fascinating disease epidemiologically because it has great potential to become a major health issue in America, considering immunity from

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Malaria is one of those diseases that have stood the test of time, and still of major concern in many regions of the world, especially in tropical areas. It is an intermittent and remittent fever caused by a protozoan parasite that invades red blood cells. Malaria affects approximately two hundred and fifty million people annually, with the morbidity burden felt most in the tropics. Children under the ages of five and pregnant women in Sub-Saharan Africa are the groups most affected by this disease. Malaria is the leading cause of death from parasitic infection worldwide, with approximately one million deaths each year. Most of these deaths occur in Africa, followed by South East Asia.

The ebola virus is a very serious illness which commonly leads to death without the proper medical intervention and treatment. The virus’s first outbreak occurred in the 1970’s which caused a huge number of deaths across nations such as The Democratic Republic of Congo and Sudan. Recently, the virus has again resurfaced in Western Africa and is reported to be the next big pandemic to infect and torment the worlds population, similar to panic caused by SARS viral disease roughly ten years earlier. This most recent outbreak of Ebola is even more complex and much larger than its predecessor where cases have spread to a number of different countries across land in other places in the African continent and also by air travel into other continents. The diagnosis of the first ebola patient in North America, more specifically in Texas, USA, has created a state of panic amongst the population around America and especially to those living close to the infected individual. People around the world are fearing this exotic virus with extreme caution compared to other mundane germs and illnesses which pose a much more significant threat to the lives of the average American such as the influenza virus. Another oversight from the more developed world compared with many countries situated in Africa is the point of view to separate themselves from the problem by not allowing travel of people between possibly infected nations and their

Malaria is one of the “most severe public health problems worldwide” (Impact of Malaria, 2014). According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), half of

On November 10, 2016, a new report was released to the public about a special type of microchip that can test the amount of viral load of HIV in less than 30 minutes. This test can be completely self administered. The user can check the viral load amount in the bloodstream by placing a drop of their blood on the microchip, which looks similar to that of a USB drive. This microchip is then inserted into a computer, tablet, or other handheld device. The results can be achieved in less than 30 minutes, and many users had an answer in about 21 minutes with 95% accuracy. The current method requires sending blood to a laboratory and can take at least three days, if not longer, to detect the viral load present. This microchip can help to monitor those patients who are receiving treatment, but do not have access to local clinics. Researchers hope that this device can specifically help in Sub-Saharan Africa and other rural areas which may not have easy access to testing facilities nearby (Imperial College London: 2016).

Combined malaria histidine rich protein 2 (HRP2)/ Plasmodium lactate dehydrogenase (pLDH) rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) are often used to determine whether persons with fever should be treated with anti-malarials. The observation study carried out in Rwanda on 9226 from April 2014- April 2015 to compare the sensitivity of RDTs based on HRP2 and the Plasmodium lactate dehydrogenase

Dengue fever is an infectious, epidemic disease caused by any of four related dengue viruses: DEN-1, DEN-2, DEN-3, and DEN-4 (Araujo 2012). . The disease is quite widespread in tropical regions. Most reports of Dengue fever are from areas of the Caribbean, Central and South America, Africa, Southeast Asia and China, India, the Middle East, Australia and the South and Central Pacific. Global estimates and studies indicate that each year there are between 50-100 million cases of dengue infection (Cordeiro et al 2011). These are only known and treated cases however. Health experts believe that many cases likely go unreported because some health care providers do not recognize the disease. Dengue fever is seasonal and rates increase during months of extremely high temperatures and rain (de Araujo et al. 2012)

This prospective study was conducted at the Hospital for Tropical Diseases, Thailand. Patients admitted to the hospital between May 2013 and July 2015 who met the study criteria were approached for participation. The study’s inclusion criteria were: (1) patients at least 15 years old; (2) presenting with clinical criteria for dengue defined as acute fever with at least two of the following symptoms: headache, retro-orbital or ocular pain, myalgia, arthralgia, rash, a positive tourniquet test (defined as the presence of ≥20 petechiae per 1 square inch), or leukopenia (defined as a white blood cell count [WBC] <5.0 × 103 cells/μl); and (3) having a confirmed dengue viral infection. Patients with a history of

Protection of Human Subjects: The current proposal involves testing of deidentified samples from dengue patients. All collection of dengue samples from patients was carried out in the CDC. A total of 60 acute serum samples were collected from febrile patients in Puerto Rico and Costa Rica (2009–2011) suspected of having dengue 0–5 days after onset of symptoms and whose average age was 14.3 years, in a study approved by the CDC IRB.

Dengue is an sensitive viral disease with latent mortal complications. Dengue fever was primarily referred as “water poison” related with flying insects in a Chinese medical encyclopedia. In recent decades, Dengue is the most significant emerging viral disease in humans. It turn out to be a most important global public health concern. Dengue is prominent in tropical and subtropical regions around the world, mostly in urban and semiurban area. Dengue viruses (DV) belong to family Flaviviridae of which four serotypes