The Most Dangerous Disease in Africa Isn't Cancer, TB, or Diabetes - It's Late Diagnosis.
The Most Dangerous Disease in Africa Isn’t Cancer, TB, or Diabetes — It’s Late Diagnosis.
A crisis that almost no one is talking about — but everyone should.
Across Africa, millions of people develop illnesses that could be treated early, cheaply, and successfully — yet they never receive a diagnosis until it is too late.
Not because the science isn’t ready.
Not because technology doesn’t exist.
But because diagnostic access is still a privilege of geography, income, or infrastructure.
Here are the numbers:
850,000+ new cancer cases every year — and 70% are diagnosed too late to save the patient.
40 million Africans live with diabetes — 24 million don’t know they have it until complications appear.
2.5 million people develop tuberculosis annually, and 1 million cases go entirely undiagnosed.
200 million malaria cases begin without diagnostic confirmation, especially in rural regions.
100,000 women die from cervical cancer annually, a disease that is 90% preventable with screening.
These are not statistics.
These are preventable tragedies — millions of them — year after year.
And here is the part we cannot ignore:
Early diagnosis alone could save more lives than any new drug, hospital, or medical device.
That is why 360Disruption, together with Oasis Diagnostics® Corporation and Oludent Health International, is building Africa’s first scalable #saliva-based diagnostic ecosystem:
affordable, non-invasive, deployable anywhere, and powerful enough to detect infectious diseases, chronic conditions, and even early-stage cancer.
We are helping #governments, #foundations, and #partners roll out:
✓ National #screening programs
✓ Local #manufacturing for diagnostics
✓ #Telehealth follow-up pathways
✓ #Job creation for youth and women
✓ Scalable labs and community diagnostic networks
Because #African #health sovereignty begins with diagnostic sovereignty.
And because every year of delay means:
nearly 600,000 late-stage cancer cases,
24 million undiagnosed diabetics,
1 million untreated TB patients,
and hundreds of thousands of avoidable deaths.
The technology exists.
The partnerships exist.
The demand exists.
What Africa needs now is catalytic #funding to scale.
If you represent a #foundation, development partner, or health innovation organization that believes #diagnostics should not depend on a person’s location or income, we invite you to collaborate with us.
👉 https://360disruption.com/impact
Together, we can bring early detection — and a chance at life — to millions.
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