Neosepsis won the first Science Foundation Ireland-Irish Aid Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Challenge focused on SDG 3: Good Health and Well-being, with a new approach to identifying sepsis in newborn babies.
Sepsis causes 17 neonatal deaths per day in Uganda. Existing tests can be difficult to use on babies and may not provide results quickly enough. Doctors worldwide are reluctant to use antibiotics without tests to prove they are needed, to reduce the risk from new superbugs. The Neosepsis team is working on a new low-resource test that can be conducted using a small drop of blood from a heel prick.
