The silent and dangerous inequity around access to COVID-19 testing: A call to action

Affiliations

• ¹ Médecins Sans Frontières, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
• ² Texas Children's Center for Vaccine Development, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA.
• ³ Center for Sustainable Development, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America.
• ⁴ International Vaccine Institute, Seoul, South Korea.
• ⁵ Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH) Essential Medicines, PATH Seattle, WA, USA.
• ⁶ University of Houston College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA.
• ⁷ Koc University Research Center for Infectious Diseases, Istanbul, Turkey.
• ⁸ University of the West Indies, Mona, Kingston, Jamaica.
• ⁹ Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey.
• ¹⁰ College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
• ¹¹ Christian Medical College, Vellore, India.
• ¹² London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK.
• ¹³ ISGlobal-Barcelona Institute for Global Health-Hospital Clinic-University of Barcelona, Spain.
• ¹⁴ University of North Carolina, Gillings School of Global Public Health, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
• ¹⁵ Heidelberg Institute of Global Health, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany.
• ¹⁶ Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.
• ¹⁷ Center for Vaccine Development, Bamako, Mali.
• ¹⁸ University of Maryland, MD, USA.
• ¹⁹ Center for Global Development, Washington, DC, USA.
• ²⁰ Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
• ²¹ Technology and Operations Management, INSEAD.
• ²² Drugs for Neglected Diseases Initiative, Geneva, Switzerland.
• ²³ FIND, the global alliance for diagnostics, Geneva, Switzerland.