EMPOWERING WOMEN WITH QUICK STI AND UTI SCREENING
Most patients and hospitals in remote areas of kenya do not have affordable and reliable access to critical laboratory diagnostic tests when they need them. Blood and biospecimen tests which involves screening for sexual transmitted infection and urinary tract infection are common among hospitals and patient especially girls and women.
Afya-lab was designed to make these tests available to them, affordably and efficiently.
Afya-lab connects doctors and patients to a global network of diagnostic pathologists. Our solution is a platform that enables doctors and hospitals to order sexual transmitted infection and urinary tract infection tests for their patients, the samples/ biospecimen are picked by us, we arrange processing and distribute it to a network of pathologists to conduct clinical testing
HOW IT WORK
We partner with hospitals and doctors to offer customized pathology services. Our service simplifies sample or biospecimen collection and delivery to our processing centers.
We distribute work to specialized pathologist in different centers for processing. Our system tracks specimens in real-time from collection to clinical testing.
Our pathologist offer timely and precise reports to doctors, patients and hospitals for informed decisions. Our Online system enables instant report access.
Most patients and hospitals in remote areas of kenya do not have affordable and reliable access to critical laboratory diagnostic tests for Blood tests which involves screening for sexual transmitted infection and urinary tract infection when they need them.
For patients who are mostly women and girls, to get results, it takes 1 week and the doctors needs this results to make informed decision.
Our solution, Afya-lab was designed to make these tests available to them, affordably and efficiently by connecting doctors and patients ( women and girls) to pathology services.
Our dream is that every African woman will be able to access the diagnostic test they need regardless of their geographical location.
Our team is made up of 2 software engineers, we have experience in developing software application because we have cofounded a a software development company that is specialized in mobile app application development, web site development etc.
We believe we have experience in developing Afya-lab software that will help doctors and patients connects to pathologist services online.
- Improve the SRH outcomes of young people and address root cause barriers to SRHR care.
- Kenya
- Prototype: A venture or organization building and testing its product, service, or business model, but which is not yet serving anyone
Our solution is in prototype stage, it is still under development.
We are building the App that connect doctors and hospitals to diagnostic pathologist.
After that we will have our motorbike riders who will be using solar coolers to transport blood and biospecimen to our pathologist and center nationwide.
Most patients and hospitals in remote areas of kenya do not have affordable and reliable access to critical laboratory diagnostic tests when they need them
Our solution is innovative since we are connecting doctors, hospitals and patients who are mostly women to pathologist services which will conduct Blood and biospecimen tests which involves screening for sexual transmitted infection and urinary tract infection.
Our dream is that every African woman will be able to access the diagnostic test they need regardless of their geographical location.
In 5 years, We hope to connect more than 100 hospital with laboratory in remote areas in Kenya.
We hope to fastened women and girls access to diagnostic test they need regardless of geographical location, so that they can get test results from doctor to help improve their lives.
Most hospitals in remote areas of kenya do not have affordable and reliable access to critical laboratory diagnostic tests when they need them.
Which has led to most diseases and infection goes undetected and patients not receiving quality health services from health centers.
Our dream is that every African woman and man will be able to access the diagnostic test they need regardless of their geographical location to help improve their wellbeing.
- Kenya
Our platform that connect hospitals to diagnostic pathologist all over Kenya, will enable hospitals to pay through the platform for us to arrange pickup of specimens to be distributed to pathologist near there location.
- Organizations (B2B)
We will be selling our services of collecting biospecimen and samples such as ( blood, stool, urine) from hospitals without laboratory to be tested with pathologist from other institutions we have partnered with.
Money to be paid depends on size and amount of specimens/ samples ( blood, urine, stools) to be tested.