Matovu Brian, Takuwa Mercy, Mpaata Charles Norman, Denison Fiona, Kiwanuka Noah, Lewis Steff, Norrie John, Ononge Sam, Muhimbise Owen, Tuck Sharon, Etuket Maureen Dimitri, Ssekitoleko Robert T
Biomedical Engineering Unit, Department of Physiology, School of Biomedical Sciences College of Health Sciences, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda.
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, The Queen's Medical Research Institute, College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
Front Med Technol. 2022 Jul 28;4:952767. doi: 10.3389/fmedt.2022.952767. eCollection 2022.
Medical technologies present a huge potential in improving global health playing a key role toward achieving Sustainable Development Goal 3 by 2030. A number of clinicians, innovators, business entities and biomedical engineers among others have developed a number of innovative medical devices and technologies to address the healthcare challenges especially in Africa. Globally, medical devices clinical trials present the most acceptable method for determining the risks and benefits of medical device innovations with the aim of ascertaining their effectiveness and safety as compared with established medical practice. However, there are very few medical device clinical trials reported in Africa compared to other regions like USA, UK and Europe. Most of the medical device clinical trials reported in Africa are addressing challenges around HIV/AIDS, maternal health and NCDs. In this mini review, we report about some of the published medical device clinical trials in Africa PubMed and Google Scholar and their associated challenges.
医疗技术在改善全球健康方面具有巨大潜力，对实现2030年可持续发展目标3起着关键作用。许多临床医生、创新者、商业实体和生物医学工程师等已经开发出了一些创新的医疗设备和技术，以应对尤其是非洲地区的医疗挑战。在全球范围内，医疗器械临床试验是确定医疗器械创新的风险和益处的最可接受的方法，目的是与既定的医疗实践相比，确定其有效性和安全性。然而，与美国、英国和欧洲等其他地区相比，非洲报道的医疗器械临床试验非常少。非洲报道的大多数医疗器械临床试验都在应对围绕艾滋病毒/艾滋病、孕产妇健康和非传染性疾病的挑战。在这篇小型综述中，我们报告了非洲PubMed和谷歌学术上一些已发表的医疗器械临床试验及其相关挑战。
