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Co-Diagnostics, Inc. Announces Recent Grant Awards
The Company intends to use funds awarded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation toward completion of tuberculosis and HPV tests for its Co-Dx PCR Home™
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[{"type":"text","content":"The Company intends to use funds awarded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation toward completion of tuberculosis and HPV tests for its Co-Dx PCR Home™ platform \nSALT LAKE CITY, July 18, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Co-Diagnostics, Inc. (Nasdaq: CODX) (the \"Company\" or \"Co-Dx\"), a molecular diagnostics company with a unique, patented platform for the development of molecular diagnostic tests, today announced grants awarded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation related to the tuberculosis (TB) and human papillomavirus (HPV) tests on the Company's Co-Dx PCR Home™ platform.\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \nCo-Dx intends to use funds awarded by the Gates foundation toward completion of TB and HPV tests for its new platformThe TB and HPV grants in the amounts of $1.33 million and $987,000 respectively will be applied towards completion of these tests, intended for priority global markets.\nIn 2014, all United Nations Member States and the World Health Organization (WHO) committed to ending the global TB epidemic by 2030, before the COVID-19 pandemic slowed, stalled or reversed progress of global TB targets. The WHO estimates that roughly 4.2 million cases of TB went unidentified in 2021 worldwide, representing nearly 40% of actual cases, highlighting the need for a dramatic increase of affordable, high-quality, point-of-care TB diagnostics to enable rapid treatment decisions to be made for a disease that has a mortality rate of about 50% if left untreated.\nThe National Cancer Institute estimates that high-risk HPVs cause roughly 5% of all cancers worldwide, with the rate among women being nearly 10 times higher than that for men and leading to an estimated 264,000 cervical cancer deaths each year according to the WHO. More than 85% of these deaths are in low- and middle-income countries, and all of which the WHO believes can be dramatically reduced by access to diagnostics, vaccinations, and cancer screenings.\n\"The WHO and UN initiative to end the global TB epidemic is exactly in line with the key functionality of our new Co-Dx PCR Home platform currently in development, and with our stated mission to prevent the spread of infectious diseases by increasing the availability of high-quality PCR diagnostics worldwide,\" said Dwight Egan, CEO of Co-Diagnostics.\n\"Despite being a highly treatable disease, TB took the lives of 1.6 million peopl...