The ARREST-TB Project
The ARREST-TB project aims to develop a suite of technologies to rapidly, accurately and economically detect, report and monitor TB and MDR TB, and monitor response to anti-TB treatments.
Tuberculosis (TB) is the most lethal infectious disease, claiming 1.6 million lives in 2017. Drug-resistant TB cases continue to rise and the World Health Organisation estimates that only 25% of all cases are actually identified.
TB is curable if diagnosed on time and it is estimated that treatment saved the lives of 54million people between 2000 and 2017.
However, several high TB burden countries have poor access to appropriate diagnosis, as most of the current ‘gold standard’ diagnostic tools are expensive and ill adapted to resource-limited settings.
New affordable diagnostic tools are urgently required to improve detection of TB, especially in difficult to diagnose groups, for drug-resistant cases and in settings where lab infrastructure is limited.
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Financial Support
This project receives financial support from the European Commission’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 825931.
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Help to breathe
Our mission is to help hospitals in India during this current COVID-19 crisis, by providing oxygen and vital supplies. Currently, we are working with Christian Medical College (Vellore), and are keen to help more people. The COVID-19 surge in India, which
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Activities for Children
Download our Disease Detectives booklet here. The activity book is aimed at lower primary aged children and is packed with writing, tracing, mazes, puzzles, poems, experiments etc. We have used it with children as young as 2 and there are
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Tuberculosis Tag at Explorathon
On the 28th of October, members of the ARREST TB project used a game of Tuberculosis Tag developed for the Explorathon events at Heriot-Watt by Dr Helen Bridle to educate science enthusiasts of all ages on the threat of multi-drug