{"id":21263,"date":"2020-05-17T09:14:52","date_gmt":"2020-05-17T09:14:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=21263"},"modified":"2020-05-17T09:14:52","modified_gmt":"2020-05-17T09:14:52","slug":"samba-ii-hiv-testing-technology-could-change-the-face-of-covid-19-in-zimbabwe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2020\/05\/17\/samba-ii-hiv-testing-technology-could-change-the-face-of-covid-19-in-zimbabwe\/","title":{"rendered":"SAMBA II HIV testing technology could change the face of Covid-19 in Zimbabwe"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><div class=\"s-post-thumbnail\"><picture><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"loaded\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sundaynews.co.zw\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2019\/12\/Samba-pic--680x380.jpg\" alt=\"SAMBA II HIV testing technology could change the face of Covid-19 in Zimbabwe\" width=\"680\" height=\"380\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.sundaynews.co.zw\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2019\/12\/Samba-pic--680x380.jpg\" data-was-processed=\"true\" \/> <\/picture> <span class=\"s-caption-text\">On Saturday 4 April the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency approved Samba II for use in the UK and countries in Europe. As Zimbabwe grapples with expanding testing and case identification, to get a true picture of the pandemic, answers to this challenge could well be found in the Samba II technology.<\/span><\/div>\n<div id=\"pluto\" class=\"sirius-dfp-inarticle\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1544612616623-0\" data-google-query-id=\"COz02qzEuukCFQa1UQodXTcH6g\">\n<div><\/div>\n<div id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/35406761\/zp_sundaynews_pluto_0__container__\">That African countries should scale up Covid-19 testing is not debatable. In fact, it\u2019s a no brainer.\u00a0 What has however been causing sleepless nights for most Governments in the continent is how to scale up testing. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sundaynews.co.zw\/samba-ii-hiv-testing-technology-could-change-the-face-of-covid-19-in-zimbabwe\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>On Saturday 4 April the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency approved Samba II for use in the UK and countries in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-21263","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-hiv"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21263"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21264,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21263\/revisions\/21264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}