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PATH assesses diagnostic needs, landscapes potential solutions, and determines appropriate strategies to improve diagnostic testing to support schistosomiasis and soil-transmitted helminthiases control and elimination programs. Based upon literature reviews and previous input from experts, two diagnostic use cases are prioritized for further exploration.

PATH submitted an application to the World Health Organization (WHO) 21st Expert Committee on the Selection and Use of Essential Medicines to include oxygen on the WHO Model List of Essential Medicines (EML) and the List of Essential Medicines for Children (EMLc) as a medical gas to clarify its importance as a medicine for the management of hypoxemia. This summary document highlights the proposed additions to the EML/EMLc.

This report summarizes the results of PATH’s field evaluation of Sure Chill’s long-term passive device for the use of cold storage of vaccines in Senegal and provides important feedback in terms of thermal performance, end-user inputs, and perceptions at the Ministry of Health of the potential impact of the device on vaccine storage and availability in Senegal.

At PATH, we “measure what matters" by emphasizing a practical, nimble, and actionable measurement-based approach to guide decision-making. We evaluate multiple factors at various levels of the organization and across the value chain, measuring what is useful and adapting our work based on those learnings.

This brief, published by PATH in collaboration with the Solar Electric Light Fund (SELF), annotates a defensive publication that placed three prototype energy harvesting controls (EHCs) within the public domain. Lessons learned include confirmation that with the addition of an EHC solar-direct drive refrigerators can safely provide surplus electricity to power secondary electrical loads. For a more detailed analysis, please see our interrelated report titled Energy Harvesting Controls for Solar Direct-Drive Cooling Systems: Laboratory Testing Report.