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Africa: Affordable New Test to Reveal Hidden Reservoirs of Malaria - GE
GE Africa, 26 November 2015
In 1980, the world collectively shed not a single tear upon hearing that the scourge of smallpox would likely never take another life. A gargantuan global effort had eradicated the… Read more »
Affordable New Test to Reveal Hidden Reservoirs of Malaria - GE
Studies have shown that many people who live where malaria is present - up to 60 percent of some sample populations - actually carry the parasite without showing symptoms.To get anywhere near finding most hidden cases, trained scientists and technicians need expensive and complicated tools called thermal cyclers, which help them recognize whether Plasmodium's genetic material is present in a person's bloodstream. But according to GE Global Reasearch and their partners, all that is about to change.
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MSF nurse Eric Konate examines a sick child suffering from malaria at a mobile clinic in Bolom Village, Central African Republic.
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Africa: Optimism & Opportunity Propel GE - Jay Ireland
allAfrica, 23 October 2015
In Africa, there are few major American firms with as long a history of engagement as General Electric, which began operations in South Africa more than 100 years ago and has been… Read more »
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Nigeria: GE Donates U.S.$1 Million to Displaced Children, Mothers in Borno
This Day, 23 October 2015
A leading technology and infrastructure company, General Electric (GE) has made a donation of $1million to United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) to support the humanitarian needs… Read more »
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GE Healthcare, the $18 billion healthcare technology division of GE (NYSE: GE), announced the creation of a new business unit, Sustainable Healthcare Solutions (SHS), that will ... Read more »
