The acid test: The case for accurate and quick mobile point-of-care COVID testing

Monash Lens article published 11 August 2021
featuring Patrick Kwan, Zanfina Ademi, Mark Howard, James McMahon and Tuncay Alan

Monash researchers make the case for investing in development and deployment of decentralised diagnostic devices, most importantly a highly-mobile and swift point-of-care (POC) COVID-19 nucleic acid test. 

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Video of the week: Kit Fairley on why sex work matters to everyone

Professor Christopher Fairley is Director of the Melbourne Sexual Health Centre, and argues that evidence should be used to develop public policy for regulation of sex work. He gives examples of effective public policy (4:43), including when Prime Minister Gough Whitlam introduced Medicare and brought health care costs down, so poorer people could visit a doctor when sick and be treated, and Health Minister Neil Blewett's introduction of needle exchange programs. http://www.med.monash.edu.au/cecs/events/2015-tr-symposium.html
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• Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYb4oEd5z-I
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