GAFFI is an international foundation focussed on raising awareness of and collecting worldwide data on fungal disease burden Archived 2023-04-11 at the Wayback Machine.
The tests can be produced but the increasing cost of regulatory approval causes difficulty in getting them from the experimental stage in the laboratory to real world use in clinics.
GAFFI has successfully advocated for multiple diagnostics as Essential to be listed on the World Health Organization's EDL Archived 2023-04-11 at the Wayback Machine.
In 2015, GAFFI proposed action to make fungal diagnostic tests and antifungal treatments available to 95% of the world's population by 2025 95/95 by 2025 Archived 2023-04-11 at the Wayback Machine.
[3] In 2022, GAFFI published a report on access to diagnostics Archived 2023-04-11 at the Wayback Machine in 49 African countries, with the Africa Centre for Disease Control and Prevention.