PAD project wins 2025 Trinity Challenge

Author: Marya Lieberman

The Trinity Challenge on Community Access to Effective Antibiotics is seeking innovative, low-cost data and technology solutions in LMICs that address:

  1. Lack of stock control at the sub-national/local level in community settings.

    AND/OR

  2. Substandard and falsified oral antibiotics, which are estimated to make up 10% of antimicrobials used by humans in LMICs and 6.5% of veterinary medicines.

The use and/or generation of community-level data should be integral to solutions. Solutions may relate to human and/or animal health.

171 projects ideas from 50 countries were submitted to the Challenge;  8 were selected as finalists.  PADs won the challenge for identification of SF antibiotics.  Congratulations to the whole team--Ayenew Ashenef, Dr. Yauba Saidu, Ibrahim Chikowe and Hanna Kumwenda, Monde Victoria Lusepani, and Phelix Makoto Were.  

Intro video from our application: