Volume 10 Supplement 1
Health innovation in sub-Saharan Africa
Research
Edited by Calestous Juma
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Citation: BMC International Health and Human Rights 2010 10(Suppl 1):I1
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Science-based health innovation in sub-Saharan Africa
In recent years emerging markets such as India, China, and Brazil have developed appropriate business models and lower-cost technological innovations to address health challenges locally and internationally. B...
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Science-based health innovation in Ghana: health entrepreneurs point the way to a new development path
Science, technology and innovation have long played a role in Ghana’s vision for development, including in improving its health outcomes. However, so far little research has been conducted on Ghana’s capacity ...
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Science-based health innovation in Rwanda: unlocking the potential of a late bloomer
This paper describes and analyses Rwanda’s science-based health product ‘innovation system’, highlighting examples of indigenous innovation and good practice. We use an innovation systems framework, which take...
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Science-based health innovation in Tanzania: bednets and a base for invention
Tanzania is East Africa’s largest country. Although it is socially diverse, it has experienced general political stability since independence in 1964. Despite gradual economic development and Tanzania’s status...
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Science-based health innovation in Uganda: creative strategies for applying research to development
Uganda has a long history of health research, but still faces critical health problems. It has made a number of recent moves towards building science and technology capacity which could have an impact on local...
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Africa's largest long-lasting insecticide-treated net producer: lessons from A to Z Textiles
Field trials have demonstrated the efficacy of insecticide-treated nets, and the WHO has recently endorsed a shift toward Long-Lasting Insecticide Treated nets (LLINs) due to factors such as reduced distributi...
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Can incubators work in Africa? Acorn Technologies and the entrepreneur-centric model
Incubators are organizations that support the growth of new and typically technology-based enterprises, by providing business support services that bring together human and financial capital. Although the trad...
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Venture capital on a shoestring: Bioventures’ pioneering life sciences fund in South Africa
Since 2000, R&D financing for global health has increased significantly, with innovative proposals for further increases. However, although venture capital (VC) funding has fostered life sciences businesses ac...
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Harnessing biodiversity: the Malagasy Institute of Applied Research (IMRA)
Biopiracy – the use of a people’s long-established medical knowledge without acknowledgement or compensation – has been a disturbing historical reality and exacerbates the global rich-poor divide. Bioprospecti...
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Turning science into health solutions: KEMRI’s challenges as Kenya’s health product pathfinder
A traditional pathway for developing new health products begins with public research institutes generating new knowledge, and ends with the private sector translating this knowledge into new ventures. But whil...
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The road to commercialization in Africa: lessons from developing the sickle-cell drug Niprisan
Developing novel drugs from traditional medicinal knowledge can serve as a means to improve public health. Yet countries in sub-Saharan Africa face barriers in translating traditional medicinal knowledge into ...
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Venture funding for science-based African health innovation
While venture funding has been applied to biotechnology and health in high-income countries, it is still nascent in these fields in developing countries, and particularly in Africa. Yet the need for implementi...
Citation: BMC International Health and Human Rights 2010 10(Suppl 1):S12