WALTHAM, Mass., Jan. 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Inverness Medical Innovations, Inc. , a leading manufacturer and marketer of consumer and professional medical diagnostic products and developer of advanced medical devices, announced today that its subsidiary Orgenics, Ltd., has been selected by the William J. Clinton Foundation as a supplier of HIV diagnostic tests to the foundation’s member countries under its HIV/AIDS Initiative program.
Orgenics, located in Yavne, Israel, has been active in the HIV diagnostic test industry for the last 18 years, and recently obtained the World Health Organization’s accreditation for its HIV diagnostic test DoubleCheckGold(TM) HIV. Accreditation of the product was a prerequisite of selection by the foundation. Orgenics also supplies several humanitarian organizations, including WHO and Unicef.
Ron Zwanziger, CEO of Inverness, commenting on the selection, said, “We are proud to join the Clinton Foundation in its efforts to bring affordable HIV diagnostic testing to resource-poor countries. Orgenics’ selection by the Clinton Foundation, along with our recent acquisition from Abbott Laboratories of the popular Determine line of HIV products, confirm our position as a worldwide leader in HIV rapid diagnostics.”
Inverness Medical Innovations is a leading global developer of advanced diagnostic devices and is presently exploring new opportunities for its proprietary electrochemical and other technologies in a variety of professional diagnostic and consumer-oriented applications including immuno- diagnostics with a focus on women’s health, cardiology, and infectious disease. The Company’s new product development efforts, as well as its position as a leading supplier of consumer pregnancy and fertility/ovulation tests and rapid point-of-care diagnostics, are supported by the strength of its intellectual property portfolio. Inverness is headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts.
For more information about Inverness Medical Innovations, please visit its website at http://www.invernessmedical.com.
Since 1982 Orgenics Ltd. has developed reliable and easy to use diagnostic test kits for infectious disease. Orgenics serves medical laboratories and point of care customers in over 110 countries around the globe (primarily outside of the US), offering over 400 products as well as a reliable source of service, information and support. Today the company’s dynamic R&D team is focusing on the next generation products based on NAT testing and sophisticated rapid technologies.
For more information about Orgenics, please visit its website at http://www.orgenics.com.
Contact: Doug Guarino, Director of Corporate Relations 781 647 3900
Inverness Medical Innovations, Inc.
CONTACT: Doug Guarino, Director of Corporate Relations of InvernessMedical Innovations, +1-781-647-3900
