AÑO
2015
CATEGORÍA
Cuerpo
OBJETIVOS
Salud y bienestar
PAL. CLAVE
malaria, preventable disease
PAÍS
South Africa
CRÉDITOS
Ashley Uys
LINK
http://www.medi-tech.co.za
Medical Diagnostech
The $.30 kit that could end malaria.
It's an entirely preventable disease, and when diagnosed early, it's easily treatable. Yet Malaria still claims hundreds of thousands of lives each year. All it takes is a single mosquito bite and you can become infected. In 2012, the tropical disease caused 627,000 deaths internationally, 90% of them in sub-Saharan Africa. The company Medical Diagnostic has developed a self-testing kit that can diagnose the disease in less than 30 minutes, and put sufferers on the path to recovery faster.