China’s State Food and Drug Administration (SFDA) has approved Qiagen‘s portable molecular diagnostic assay, designed for screening high risk human papillomavirus (HPV), in low-resource clinical settings.

Developed in collaboration with non-profit organisation PATH, the careHPV test uses hybrid capture technology to screen women living in low-resource areas lacking electricity, water and modern laboratory infrastructure.

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The easy-to-use kit, which features instrument and collection devices, includes colour coded, easy-to-understand menus, contained reagents and tolerates temperature variations that occur in rural clinics lacking refrigeration for sample storage due to limited electricity or water.

Clinical studies conducted on careHPV in China, Nigeria, Rwanda and Thailand, in parallel with PATH demonstration trials in China, India, Uganda and Nicaragua, have demonstrated its high sensitivity and reliability in low-resource settings.

“Developed in collaboration with non-profit organisation PATH, the careHPV test uses hybrid capture technology to screen women living in low-resource areas lacking electricity, water and modern laboratory infrastructure.”

Qiagen molecular diagnostics business area senior vice president Dr Helge Lubenow said about 275,000 women a year die from cervical cancer, more than 85% of which are in less-developed countries.

“As the only test of its kind, careHPV offers the life-saving benefits of sensitive molecular diagnostics to resource-poor regions,” Lubenow said.

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“We are expanding QIAGEN’s Prevention portfolio by launching the careHPV system in emerging markets, both through a commercial offering to healthcare providers and through donations to governments and NGOs that are in the process of implementing large scale cervical cancer prevention plans.

“This new product complements our well-established global leadership with the digene HC2 HPV test and can also be used very synergistically for example to allow national or regional screening programs to cover the infrastructure profiles of all segments within the targeted region.”

The company said the careHPV assay is expected to be available in China in January 2013, followed by India later in 2013 and other emerging markets as approvals are received.