The silent and dangerous inequity around access to COVID-19 testing: A call to action

• Carolina Batista,
• Peter Hotez,
• Yanis Ben Amor,
• Jerome H Kim,
• David Kaslow,
• Bhavna Lall,
• Onder Ergonul,
• J Peter Figueroa,
• Mayda Gursel,
• Mazen Hassanain,
• Gagandeep Kang,
• Heidi Larson,
• Denise Naniche,
• Timothy Sheahan,
• Annelies Wilder-Smith,
• Shmuel Shoham,
• Samba O Sow,
• Prashant Yadav,
• Nathalie Strub-Wourgaft,
• Sarah-Jane Loveday,
• Emma Hannay,
• Maria Elena Bottazzi

Affiliations

Carolina Batista

Médecins Sans Frontières, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Corresponding author.

Peter Hotez

Texas Children's Center for Vaccine Development, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA

Yanis Ben Amor

Center for Sustainable Development, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America

Jerome H Kim

International Vaccine Institute, Seoul, South Korea

David Kaslow

Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH) Essential Medicines, PATH Seattle, WA, USA

Bhavna Lall

University of Houston College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA

Onder Ergonul

Koc University Research Center for Infectious Diseases, Istanbul, Turkey

J Peter Figueroa

University of the West Indies, Mona, Kingston, Jamaica

Mayda Gursel

Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey

Mazen Hassanain

College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Gagandeep Kang

Christian Medical College, Vellore, India

Heidi Larson

London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK

Denise Naniche

ISGlobal-Barcelona Institute for Global Health-Hospital Clinic-University of Barcelona, Spain

Timothy Sheahan

University of North Carolina, Gillings School of Global Public Health, Chapel Hill, NC, USA

Annelies Wilder-Smith

London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK; Heidelberg Institute of Global Health, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Shmuel Shoham

Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA

Samba O Sow

Center for Vaccine Development, Bamako, Mali; University of Maryland, MD, USA

Prashant Yadav

Center for Global Development, Washington, DC, USA; Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA; Technology and Operations Management, INSEAD

Nathalie Strub-Wourgaft

Drugs for Neglected Diseases Initiative, Geneva, Switzerland

Sarah-Jane Loveday

FIND, the global alliance for diagnostics, Geneva, Switzerland

Emma Hannay

FIND, the global alliance for diagnostics, Geneva, Switzerland

Maria Elena Bottazzi

Texas Children's Center for Vaccine Development, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA