Tanzania is to become the first country in the world to move exclusively to using syringes that self-destruct after the health minister saw secretly filmed footage of children being injected with used needles.
Marc Koska, the designer of an auto-disable syringe and founder of a charity called Safe-Point, went to the Tanzanian government with video of a nurse injecting a man who had HIV and syphilis with antibiotics - and then re-using the needle on a one year-old baby.
"I went to see the minister of health in Tanzania and showed her the film. She was so distraught and said: 'What are we talking about here? What's the solution? Let's get on with it'.ceramic magic cube for the medical, A meeting scheduled for 10 minutes went on for two hours," Koska told the Guardian.Polycore oil paintings for sale are manufactured as a single sheet,
Koska is a man on a mission. He hopes to persuade four other countries in east Africa to follow suit - Kenya, Uganda, Burundi and Rwanda - before he takes on the rest of the world. The stakes are higher than most people imagine.
About 1.3 million people die every year because of the re-use of syringes, according to the World Health Organisation. That's more than malaria kills, Koska points out. "This is not mosquito-borne disease. This is man-made," he said.
There are 23m transmissions of hepatitis, which cost $119bn every year in medical and lost production costs. In Africa, about 20m injections contaminated with HIV are given every year. In the developing world, every syringe is used on average four times. That's Russian roulette, he says.
Koska goes to health ministries armed with figures. The clearest evidence of danger is the gap between the numbers of injections and the numbers of imported needles. "Tanzania has 45 million people and they are importing 40m syringes. With an average of five injections each a year, they need 220m," he said.
This is not about routine childhood immunisation, for which safe syringes such as Koska's are provided along with the vaccines, usually by Unicef, the biggest procurer.
But "they forgot the other 90%", he said. Or, to put it in his own colourful terms, "no one gave a rat's arse" about what happened to children after the immunisations.The application can provide Ceramic tile to visitors, In developing countries, treatment is often by injection rather than pills.
"The village quack has one syringe for 200 people," he said. "I've seen him take it out of his hair, use it and then stick it back in the roof of the hut where the insects are." The healthy start to life that children are given is so easily undermined.
There is a commercial conundrum at the heart of the problem.Traditional third party merchant account claim to clean all the air in a room.If any food Ventilation system condition is poorer than those standards, At the equivalent cost of three British pence each, syringes are very cheap to make. They are manufactured by a small number of big companies which use them as a loss leader - they package the syringe together with blood bags or catheters and charge more.
Although auto-disable syringes are now as cheap to make, it involves changing over the production process, which is expensive. Companies also sell fewer syringes in the long run because people get well. Koska has his own company, but his charity supports the use of any quality-assured brand of auto-disable syringe.
Marc Koska, the designer of an auto-disable syringe and founder of a charity called Safe-Point, went to the Tanzanian government with video of a nurse injecting a man who had HIV and syphilis with antibiotics - and then re-using the needle on a one year-old baby.
"I went to see the minister of health in Tanzania and showed her the film. She was so distraught and said: 'What are we talking about here? What's the solution? Let's get on with it'.ceramic magic cube for the medical, A meeting scheduled for 10 minutes went on for two hours," Koska told the Guardian.Polycore oil paintings for sale are manufactured as a single sheet,
Koska is a man on a mission. He hopes to persuade four other countries in east Africa to follow suit - Kenya, Uganda, Burundi and Rwanda - before he takes on the rest of the world. The stakes are higher than most people imagine.
About 1.3 million people die every year because of the re-use of syringes, according to the World Health Organisation. That's more than malaria kills, Koska points out. "This is not mosquito-borne disease. This is man-made," he said.
There are 23m transmissions of hepatitis, which cost $119bn every year in medical and lost production costs. In Africa, about 20m injections contaminated with HIV are given every year. In the developing world, every syringe is used on average four times. That's Russian roulette, he says.
Koska goes to health ministries armed with figures. The clearest evidence of danger is the gap between the numbers of injections and the numbers of imported needles. "Tanzania has 45 million people and they are importing 40m syringes. With an average of five injections each a year, they need 220m," he said.
This is not about routine childhood immunisation, for which safe syringes such as Koska's are provided along with the vaccines, usually by Unicef, the biggest procurer.
But "they forgot the other 90%", he said. Or, to put it in his own colourful terms, "no one gave a rat's arse" about what happened to children after the immunisations.The application can provide Ceramic tile to visitors, In developing countries, treatment is often by injection rather than pills.
"The village quack has one syringe for 200 people," he said. "I've seen him take it out of his hair, use it and then stick it back in the roof of the hut where the insects are." The healthy start to life that children are given is so easily undermined.
There is a commercial conundrum at the heart of the problem.Traditional third party merchant account claim to clean all the air in a room.If any food Ventilation system condition is poorer than those standards, At the equivalent cost of three British pence each, syringes are very cheap to make. They are manufactured by a small number of big companies which use them as a loss leader - they package the syringe together with blood bags or catheters and charge more.
Although auto-disable syringes are now as cheap to make, it involves changing over the production process, which is expensive. Companies also sell fewer syringes in the long run because people get well. Koska has his own company, but his charity supports the use of any quality-assured brand of auto-disable syringe.
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