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Causes: Health, Specifically Named Diseases Research
Mission: Diagnosis and treatment of diseases
Programs: Conducted scientific & medical research and developed standards regarding the detection, diagnosis and/or treatment of infectious diseases. The organiation partners in the president's malaria initiative (pmi)effort to improve the diagnosis of malaria and collaborates in efforts to develop new diagnostic technologies. These technologies include lensless microscopes and automated image analysis for the detection of malaria parasites. The organization also serves as a consultant to the world health organization regarding the creation of microscopist performance standards and assists foreign ministries of health to establish national archives of malaria slides (nams).
This organization's nonprofit status may have been revoked or it may have merged with another organization or ceased operations.