February 22, 2024 – BD introduced a strategic partnership with Camtech Well being, a digital healthcare firm targeted on at-home well being testing, to advance cervical most cancers screening by providing girls in Singapore the first-ever choice to self-sample in privateness from their very own house.

This system combines the Camtech Well being HPV (human papillomavirus) self-collection take a look at with the BD Onclarity™ HPV Assay, a clinically validated take a look at that may concurrently detect 14 high-risk HPV strains (or “genotypes”). The intention of this system is to enhance cervical most cancers screening charges in Singapore, the place fewer than half of eligible girls are at present examined.

Residence collections might help tackle the urgent public well being problem of reaching girls who will not be collaborating in routine cervical most cancers screening.

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