Publications by authors named "Hye Lynn Choi"

Article Synopsis
  • * The survey gathered responses from 142 participants across 47 countries, focusing on the diagnostic methods and medicines used at various health system levels, highlighting a significant presence of respondents from middle-income countries.
  • * Findings revealed insights into treatment trends, challenges like medicine affordability, and indicated that drug repurposing is being utilized for these mycoses, suggesting the need for a global treatment registry to enhance data collection and inform future clinical practices.
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Access to quality-assured, accurate diagnostics is critical to ensure that the 2021-2030 neglected tropical disease (NTD) road map targets can be achieved. Currently, however, there is limited regulatory oversight and few quality assurance mechanisms for NTD diagnostic tools. In attempting to address such challenges and the changing environment in regulatory requirements for diagnostics, a landscape analysis was conducted, to better understand the availability of NTD diagnostics and inform future regulatory frameworks.

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Ensuring access to essential medicines for leishmaniasis control is challenging, as leishmaniasis is a very small and unattractive market for pharmaceutical industry. Furthermore, control programmes are severely underfunded. We conducted an analysis of global procurement of leishmaniasis medicines for the past 5 years in order to shed light on the current leishmaniasis market landscape and supply and demand dynamics.

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