Why Pathway Diagnostics?
Every treatment decision starts with an accurate diagnosis. Across Ghana and sub-Saharan Africa, too many people wait weeks for one, or never receive it at all.
Pathology is the hidden half of medicine. It tells a doctor whether a lump is cancer, which infection a child has, and why a person died.
Yet across sub-Saharan Africa, pathology services are scarce and concentrated in a few large hospitals. Samples from district and community facilities travel long distances, results come back late, and some never come back.
When a diagnosis is slow, treatment waits. When a cause of death is never confirmed, families are left without answers and health planners are left without the data they need.
Pathway Diagnostics exists to close that gap, starting in Ghana and growing across the region. We work on community outreach, telepathology and mortality surveillance, and we train the people who make pathology possible.
Our answer
Bring the laboratory closer to the patient.
We connect local clinics to pathologists through tracked sample routes and digital slides, so a result can reach the patient in days rather than weeks.
We also invest in people: training residents, medical students and laboratory scientists, so that the next generation of pathology care is built in Africa, for Africa.
Did you know?
The gap in numbers
Pathology is behind most cancer diagnoses and every confirmed cause of death. These numbers show how far there is to go.
Sub-Saharan Africa
people for every pathologist in Niger, the most stretched country surveyed.
fewer pathologists per person than the US or UK, even in Africa's best-served countries.
new cancer cases each year in sub-Saharan Africa. Almost every one needs a pathologist to confirm it.
Ghana
medically trained pathologists for a country of over 30 million people.
hospitals surveyed had on-site laboratory capacity for breast cancer pathology.
of expected deaths were registered in 2022, so many causes of death are never recorded.
Sources: Nelson et al., Journal of Clinical Oncology, 2016; IARC Global Cancer Observatory, sub-Saharan Africa fact sheet; Price et al., PLOS ONE, 2024; Births and Deaths Registry, Ghana, Statistical Report on Death Registration 2022.
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