cheapbag214s |
Posted: Tue 18:45, 20 Aug 2013 Post subject: Global health innovators rewarded for bold ideas-s |
|
Global health innovators rewarded for bold ideas,roger vivier online
Canadians have won grants worth $1.5 million to develop innovative methods to tackle pressing health issues in developing countries, for example cheap filters to get rid of arsenic from h2o.
Grand Challenges Canada announced that 15 "rising stars" each won a $100,000 grant on Thursday to build up their innovations.
"Innovation anywhere is innovation everywhere," said Dr. Peter Singer,roger vivier sale, CEO of Grand Challenges Canada. "The kind of innovations we develop have uses globally, have uses locally,giuseppe zanotti outlet, they're often more affordable."
For instance, grant recipient Karim S. Karim of Waterloo, Ont.,roger vivier shoes, is focusing on a device for rapid,roger vivier online, low-cost detection of tuberculosis,Roger vivier uk, the industry problem both in the third world as well as in First Nations communities.
"Canadians can really make a difference in health and well-being of individuals in low- and middle-income countries,roger vivier sandals," said Singer.
The grants should fund ideas such as a simply designed, inexpensive prosthetic leg along with a test for pneumonia that you can do on the cellphone in poor countries with few resources.
Aman Ullah of the University of Alberta in Edmonton is developing his idea of using chicken feathers coupled with a polymer to make cheap, biodegradable filters to remove arsenic from drinking water in developing countries.
The filter would sit on top of a jug that collects the potable water. Ullah said the protein in feathers is extremely efficient at removing metal,giuseppe zanotti shoes sale, but different filters need to be designed to meet the demands of families ranging in size from the couple to 20 people.
A lot more than 140 million people in Bangladesh,giuseppe zanotti sneakers, India, Vietnam, Pakistan and China need filters to get rid of arsenic in the water they drink, Ullah said.
"The target would be to give them cheap filters,giuseppe zanotti pumps, which can efficiently take away the toxic metal plus they could possibly get pure drinking water."
Currently, the only choice many people face would be to drink the contaminated water and risk cancer along with other diseases brought on by exposure to the toxic metal, or not drink the water and die of thirst.
• In Montreal: Dr. Cedric Yansouni is focusing on a diagnostic that is economical and non-invasive to determine whether someone has visceral leishmaniasis, a deadly disease.
• In Quebec City: David Richard is focusing on a low-cost vaccine for malaria, a disease that infects 216 million people annually and kills 655,000 annually.
The Grand Challenges program is two years old, but there are already some early successes.
A week ago, research reported that a simple saliva test supported by the program is equally as effective as blood tests to identify HIV in developing countries facing an epidemic.
相关的主题文章:
http://www.loltestab.fora.pl/forum-testowe,1/fash-mob-true-blood-season-4-premiere-the-shtyle-a,2566.html#2584
http://forum.alislamweb.com/showthread.php?p=500357#post500357
http://bbs1.jtuhouston.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=148716#148716
http://www.compassionforgreyhounds.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=13002#13002
http://www.lorazepamfsytk.fora.pl/raina-pushed-tadalafil-soft-some-dumb-hunt-you-horn,1/hush-puppies-spun3,2541.html#2563
http://www.tricklife.com/forum/showthread.php?p=9042771#post9042771
http://www.luntacunt.fora.pl/rules,3/history-of-platform-shoes-spun4,9192.html#9488
http://www.miralaxhffwz.fora.pl/raina-propped-why-lsd-stays-in-the-body-cradled-the-hey-mean-addiction-recovery-forum-adderall-addiction-wisdom,1/huna-in-five-minutes-or-less-spun1,10826.html#10986
http://www.enutka.fora.pl/tworczosc,12/how-to-measure-your-foot-for-the-correct-shoe-size,2536.html#4002
http://www.cephalexinqxeka.fora.pl/take-them-throaty-laugh-ommy-had-numb,1/cheap-motels-in-lexington-spun1,3543.html#3557
http://www.hirokingdom.net/2010/04/post-138.html#comments
http://www.newparitet.ru/forum/showthread.php?p=124782#post124782
http://www.darknessevolution.fora.pl/bug-reports,9/nike-mercurial-vapor-vii-safari-soccer-cleats-10,59456.html#68022
http://www.rakenbymd.fora.pl/coke-from-waits-poker-onnie-mentioned-fantasy-casino-shoots-you-held-his-anything,1/cheap-nike-shox-pursuit-of-a-dream-spun4,2710.html#2732
http://www.jenniferboylan.net/paranormal/showthread.php?p=2658885#post2658885 |
|