If you can’t test, you can’t treat

As global health is changing, advancing it has become increasingly complex. With limited resources and competing priorities, countries need to ensure investments can yield the greatest impact—on people, on communities, on economies, and on national security. 

When countries invest in integrated laboratory networks, resources go further, local expertise grows, and health systems become stronger. The impact reaches far beyond clinical settings—improving health outcomes creates skilled jobs, empowers populations, and helps local economies thrive.

Since 2020, Roche and (RED) have partnered to increase awareness about diagnostics and advocate for country-led initiatives that help strengthen diagnostics capacity and expand access to reliable testing in low- and middle-income countries. Together, we harnessed creative collaboration and (RED)’s powerful global voice to spotlight a vital truth: laboratory network readiness is the foundation of resilient health systems.

Through our joint efforts, we highlighted how a skilled workforce, reliable supply chains, and AI-enabled laboratory innovations come together to prevent disease, detect conditions earlier, and stop local outbreaks before they spread.

Over the course of our work together, we helped amplify (RED)’s mission, which has generated more than $800 million for the Global Fund, positively impacting over 350 million lives and building a foundation for an HIV-free generation.

Together, we remain united in our commitment to making preventable and treatable diseases preventable and treatable for everyone, everywhere—helping countries to be better prepared to address public health needs today and become more resilient for the future.