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ajlm-2072	Erasmus, Rajiv T.	Point-of-care testing: Connecting communities in Africa and ensuring equity in access to health and diagnostics	2022		.htm	text/html	1466	79	46	Indeed, if one fast-forwards to 2022, POC testing has made great strides in diagnosing and managing the disease burden in Africa. According to the United States’ National Institutes of Health, ‘empowering clinicians to make decisions at the “point-of-care” has the potential to significantly impact healthcare delivery and to address the challenges of health disparities’ and this could result in ‘the success of a potential shift from curative medicine, to predictive, personalised, and pre-emptive medicine’.7 Although POC testing is progressively being used for the identification and management of various disease states in Africa, controlling various POC instruments at numerous sites can be difficult, particularly when such instruments are run by non-technical staff.	cache/ajlm-2072.htm	txt/ajlm-2072.txt