CoNE selected
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, March 17 2016:
Community Network for
Empowement (CoNE) has
been selected as one of the
four finalists in the Global
innovation testing contest
conducted by the World
Health Organisation (WHO),
Geneva and Social
Entrepreneurship for Sexual
Health (SESH) Global.
According to a state-
ment, the purpose of the
contest was to identify
innovative and effective
examples of delivering
hepatitis B and C testing
models around the world.
CoNE's hepatitis C
testing model was based on
the experience of working
with the Dept of Health,
Govt of Manipur, commu-
nity groups, pharma
companies providing testing
kits and liver disease
staging while ICMR
provided the viral load
PCR confirmatory test.
CoNE's president RK
Nalinikumar has been
invited to present the
testing model during the
upcoming International
Liver Congress organised
by European Association
for the study of liver to be
held in Barcelona, Spain
from April 13 to 17, it
said.