Incas Vaginal Discharge Kit (Health and Wellbeing)
By Dr. Laud Anthony Basing (Ghana)Laud Anthony Basing is a scientist, an innovator and an
entrepreneur from Ghana with a background in Microbiology
and Biomedical Engineering. He is Founder and CEO of Incas
Diagnostics, the developers of low cost, easy to use point-of-
care diagnostics for the African market. Dr Anthony is a 2016
Mandela Washington Fellow and former Chairman of the
Linkages Committee of the West and Central African
Regional Advisory Board of the fellowship.
His innovation, Incas Vaginal Kit (Incas Vagkit) is a 3-in- 1
urine-based test kit that drastically reduces testing time for
vaginal infections, leading to the efficient and quick detection
and management of vaginitis.
The Vagkit simply requires a urine sample and can be used
at home; results are available within 10 minutes. A mobile app
allows women to speak anonymously to a doctor who then
provides a prescription based on the test results. Current
diagnostics require women to go to a hospital or lab, where a
vaginal fluid sample is taken (mostly by a male) and results
released after 72 hours.