A non-profit Swiss Foundation

Founded in 2003 (WHO World Health Assembly):

• Partnering for better diagnosis for all
• Vision: A world where patients will have equitable access to high quality diagnosis
• Mission: FIND drives the development and implementation of accurate and affordable diagnostic tests, that are appropriate to patient care in low-resource settings
   

Diagnosis is the first step in successful treatment.

• People with untreated cases of TB can infect others, and themselves can die.
• Incorrect treatment of diseases like TB leads to drug resistance.
• TB causes 1.6 million deaths and costs $12 billion per year in lost revenue.

Better tools are urgently needed

• Today's most commonly used TB diagnostic, sputum microscopy, is more than 100 years old
• Detects only half the cases of TB in patients tested
• Tests for resistant strains not widely available in the field
• Particularly ineffective for diagnosing TB in people living with HIV

What FIND is doing

• FIND is addressing diseases of the developing world such as tuberculosis that cost lives and money by developing better, faster and less costly diagnostic tests
• FIND has developed effective diagnostic tests that are now ready to be rolled out on a large scale