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Nigerian MOH approval for VISITECT CD4 350 test

17 Jan 2020 10:30

RNS Number : 1757A
Omega Diagnostics Group PLC
17 January 2020
 

 

OMEGA DIAGNOSTICS GROUP PLC

("Omega" or the "Company" or the "Group")

 

Nigerian Ministry of Health approval for VISITECT® CD4 350 test

 

Omega (AIM: ODX), the medical diagnostics company focused on CD4, food intolerance and allergy testing, announces that the Company has received approval from the Federal Ministry of Health ("MOH") to enable the VISITECT® CD4 350 test to be deployed in Nigeria.

 

Following a product evaluation in six geopolitical zones in Nigeria, co-ordinated by the National AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Infections Control Programme ("NASCP"), NASCP recommended to the MOH that the Company's VISITECT® CD4 350 test be adopted into the National HIV Control Programme as a rapid and instrument-free test device that provides actionable results at the point of care.

 

MOH approval means the Company's VISITECT® CD4 350 test is the first rapid and instrument-free CD4 test to be implemented throughout Nigeria in the care of people living with HIV. As announced on 2 December 2019, we have received initial orders from our distribution partner in Nigeria for 250,000 tests and we will now look to firm up a delivery schedule to determine what proportion of this demand can be shipped prior to the end of the financial year.

 

Colin King, CEO of Omega commented: "I am pleased that our test has been approved for use in Nigeria which was one of our key strategic aims and allows our unique point-of-care test to make a real difference to people living with HIV in Nigeria."

 

 

The information communicated in this announcement is inside information for the purposes of Article 7 of EU Regulation 596/2014.

 

Contacts: 

 

Omega Diagnostics Group PLC

Tel: 01259 763 030

Bill Rhodes, Interim Non-Executive Chairman

Colin King, Chief Executive

www.omegadiagnostics.com

Kieron Harbinson, Group Finance Director

finnCap Ltd

Tel: 020 7220 0500

Geoff Nash/Hannah Boros (Corporate Finance)

Camille Gochez (ECM)

Walbrook PR Limited

Tel: 020 7933 8780 or omega@walbrookpr.com

Paul McManus

Mob: 07980 541 893

Lianne Cawthorne

Mob: 07584 391 303

 

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