Promoting Africa
Can African Countries Implement Universal Health Coverage ? Jennifer Van, a final year MSc student in Medical Health Policy Analysis at George Mason University in Virginia USA, gives her perspective. The lack of universal coverage can slow down public health research, but this is not the only cause of the difficulties that our countries may…
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Tanzania is set to launch the world’s largest drone delivery network early 2018, with drones parachuting blood and medicines out of the skies to save the lives of many in the region. Zipline, a Californian drone-delivery startup that has been delivering blood to Rwandan clinics since October, recently announced that it’s expanding its operations into…
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Young Ugandan Brian Turyabagye, invented a biochemical smart jacket, called Mamaope, which detects pneumonia 3 to 4 times faster than the orthodox doctors’ detection. In Sub-Saharan Africa, pneumonia kills half a million children aged five and below every year; this accounts for half of all global deaths of children under five from pneumonia (UNICEF). Unfortunately, not enough…
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The company KmerPad produces washable and reusable sanitary napkins entirely made in Cameroon, and less expensive than disposables. The creation of the company In Africa, one in ten girls do not go to school during their menstruation (NGO Plan International). To cope with the desertion of the classes of young Cameroonians during their menstrual periods,…
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At 28 years old, the young Burkinabe engineer develops Laafi Bag, a refrigeration bag capable of keeping the vaccines at the proper temperature for four days. The Laafi Bag project won € 10,000 (6,559,570 FCFA) in the Rebranding Africa Awards in Brussels and received a pledge of € 155,000 (CFAF 101,673,335) from Coris Bank Burkina…
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Bertin Nahum is the president of the company Medtech which designs surgical robots. He is a graduate of the National Institute of Applied Sciences (INSA Lyon, France). He also holds a Master of Science in Robotics from the University of Coventry (England). Rosa is a robot that has been designed to assist surgeons in the…
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From October 17th to 19th 2015 Dakar will take place in Dakar the International Buccodental Fair. The event will be a first on the continent and will aim to present the opportunities, perspectives and solutions to the challenges of the dental sector. It will be held at the International Trade Center of Senegal (CICES).
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