On February 28, 2020, Mr. Anthony Geronimo, TDF’s Laboratory Manager represented the Foundation to its membership to the Philippine Private Sector Diagnostics Consortium (PPSDC) that aims to provide quality diagnostics within your reach.

The Consortium announced a 70% price reduction on GeneXpert – a test used to confirm if a patient has tuberculosis under two hours.  A typical GeneXpert test would cost P8,000 pesos, now with the Consortium the price of test will be lowered to P2,268 across all hospitals and laboratories part of the Consortium membership.

The ceremony and induction of members were led by then President Dr. Sally Gatchalian of the Philippine Pediatric Society, she was also a previous TDF Board of Trustee member.