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Last year in Uganda alone, malaria affected 9.5 million people and killed 5,100. Globally, the disease kills almost half a million people a year, mostly small children living in sub Saharan Africa.
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“Many people live in remote rural communities and the roads are terrible, so they have problems canadian goose jacket reaching a health facility,” says Kitgum hospital director Dr Geoffrey Akena.
“To try to solve this problem we’ve canada goose store deployed village health teams that travel around the region treating people, but we don’t have information so they’re moving around blindly.”
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Despite the challenges, Brian remains confident that Matibabu will work and is seeking $600,000 so they can bring it to market in the next two years with the potential of it being used in the future to diagnose other diseases such as anaemia.
