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South African Population Research Infrastructure Network

South African Population Research Infrastructure Network (SAPRIN) is a long-term investment into a national research infrastructure funded by the national Department of Science and Innovation (DSI) and hosted by the South African Medical Research Council. It brings together and harmonises all three of South Africa’s existing health and demographic surveillance sites (HDSS) and two newly identified urban nodes in Gauteng and the Western Cape. The long-standing rural nodes are the MRC/Wits University Agincourt HDSS in Bushbuckridge District, Mpumalanga, established in 1993, with a population of

Prosel limited

Prosel Ltd was established in 1988 as a design consultancy as well as manufacturing and installation of steel structures, lighting, customized fabrication, and developing sign technology for the African market. The pioneers of Prosel Ltd. have enormous experience having been in the industry for many years. The collective experience was pooled into Prosel Ltd & with focus and dedication has resulted in us becoming a market leader. Specialized in the production of signages for the petrol stations, Banking and retail sectors. We are able to develop turnkey solutions that offer the design

Ignite Power

Ignite Power is the fastest-growing Pan-African developer and financier of solar solutions, providing governments with a nationwide-scale deployment of electrification projects. We focus on affordability, scalability, sustainability, and community as the main pillars of operations. To achieve this ambition, we have constructed collaborative business models encompassing all-inclusive payment systems and local government engagement. With over 1.4 million customers throughout the SSA region and millions more to be connected throughout the continent, Ignite Power is leading the way to a more

COVID-19 Biosensing kit

COVID-19 Biosensing kit will be used to detect the virus via antigen-antibody reaction. Nanoparticle synthetic platform will be functional with antibody-immobilized complex and be fitted in a plastic device. By spitting and blowing on the device antibody-antigen interaction signal mechanism will indicate positive or negative results.

Manufacturing

- The desired nanoparticles will be synthesised with functionality of immobilised pecific Covid-19 antibodies to make testing model
-Characterization of testing model
-Parkaging the model to a device

COVID-19 Biosensing kit will be used by

UCT ViZAR

The UCT ViZAR is a comfortable, disposable face shield that has followed a user-centric design approach to meet all of the needs of the wearer.

The soft profiled foam brow allows for the visor to sit against the forehead while not irritating the skin. This also allows for a space between the shield and face, reducing the chance of fogging on the visor. The soft fabric elastic backing enables the visor to fit many head shapes and hairstyles. The UCT ViZAR has been designed for longer period use to maintain the much-needed safety and comfort of the user.

COVID-19 Real time Contact Tracing app

My innovation gathers real time data of interactions and contact between people as they go about their daily lives. This information is stored in a secure server used by the medical department to protect identity.

When a person who has this app running on their smart phone is tested positive for COVID-19, medical personell can then retrieve their app ID and access the data which will tell them who the person was recently in contact with for the past 31 days.

Through the app a health personel can contact the potentially infected people and find out if they are experiencing any symptoms and

Itaga Trading

Itaga Trading was established in July 2010. The company has a broad service offering in the civil works, optical fibres installation, floating, microwaves installation, RF and splicing in telecommunications industry. Since inception, Itaga Trading has significantly established a niche market in the project management sector. The company has since been commissioned by MCT, Sizwe IT Group to do project work for DFA, Cell C, Vodacom, and Metro fibre. These projects involved major civil works, Microwaves and optic fibre cabling around the country. All these projects were successfully completed on

All-in-one Temperature Scanner, Sanitizer, and Human Counter

The video for our product can be found at this Youtube link : https://youtu.be/60uerQU9Sqc

This is a digital tool that keeps count of all people that walk in and out of a building while ensuring that all persons that enter the building adhere to all Covid-19 safety precautions such as sanitizing, and taking temperature. This digital tool is fully automated and eliminates the need for extra staff at any entrance. The system works by limiting the number of people that can enter a building to a regulated number and will prohibit further entry once the count limit is reached. The system can

PeCo Power

PeCo Power researches, designs and manufactures a line of renewable energy electrification technology. Our technology is developed in Africa for Africa as an alternative to utility grid electrification. We seek to provide an affordable, robust, safe and user-friendly electrification solution to households that are living in energy poverty. Our patented technology allows for an electricity grid to be built from the ground-up in a plug and play manner using modular components. Household systems can be connected to form neighbourhood systems that can be connected to build a grid that can

Development of Filtering facepiece respirators (FFR) filtering performance testing test rig

The present research focuses on developing a filter performance testing competency of filtering face-piece respirator’s (FFR) at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits). This activity is in response to the expected shortage of medical personal protective equipment (PPE) related to the spread of COVID -19 in South Africa. A problem identified is the shortage of original equipment manufacturer (OEM) N95 FFR for medical staff. Consequently, the team at Wits has been designing and prototyping facemasks using rapid prototyping methods to help mitigate the shortage of OEM N95 facemasks.

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Surrogate Assisted Agent Based Modelling of Epidemics

There is a pressing need to rapidly simulate accurate complex conceptual models (Agent-based Models) for the spread of an epidemic within a population. Accurate agent-based models allow for thorough scenario planning allowing on to simulate the impact of extensive external factors. This research aims at understanding how one might reduce the parameterization time of a complex conceptual model without reducing its accuracy. This understanding will be enriched by tapping into state-of-the-art (SOTA) research in online and offline machine learning (ML) algorithms for surrogate models.

Dietary habits and health outcomes of African populations during COVID-19 lockdown

The objective of this research is to comparatively assess the changes in dietary habits of various populations during the COVID-19 lockdown and to also determine the effect this has on people’s health. As a result of the lockdown situation to combat the spread of COVID-19, movements have been restricted, offices have also been closed and staff asked to work from home except for essential services. This has affected people’s eating habits and brought about changes in their dietary patterns. With time, these changes may have adverse effects on the health of people especially if the changes

Neuropsychological Sequelae in Survivors of Severe COVID-19: A Research Proposal

Accumulating data confirms that coronaviruses are not restricted to the respiratory system and that they are able to invade the central nervous system leading to neurological disorders. Nonetheless, studies to date of COVID-19 have primarily focussed on morbidity and/or pulmonary function, but within the literature neurologic signs have been recorded in some patients and include headache, vomiting, hyposmia, impaired consciousness, stroke and encephalopathy. It is likely that as a result of the current pandemic, many COVID-19 patients will sustain brain injury through hypoxia or other poorly

DETECTION AND MONITORING OF SARS-CoV-2 RNA FRAGMENTS IN WASTEWATER USING A MALDI-TOF MASS SPECTROMETER

Wastewater monitoring has been successfully used to identify illicit drug hotspots, and track and provide early warnings of occurrences of pathogenic viruses such as Hepatitis A and Norovirus. Likewise, there is a potential value in using wastewater surveillance to monitor the existence and spread of the novel Covid-19 virus in communities. Due to the multiple shedding routes ( through saliva, respiratory secretions, urine and faeces) of the virus from infected individuals, the COVID-19 virus, or at least its RNA strands, may reach collection systems and water resources recovery facilities

COVID-19 Screening

This is a screening portal in seven languages (the user can select the language based on his/her preference) for screening of COVID-19. The languages are English, isiZulu, Tshivenda, Swahili, Sesotho sa Leboa/Sepedi, Afrikkans and Igbo. The questionnaire has received the ethical clearance of the Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Johannesburg. At the end of the screening suggestions are displayed based on the inputs selected by the user.

WASTEWATER-BASED EPIDEMIOLOGY FOR COVID-19 DETECTION IN WASTEWATER

With the economic and practical limits of medical screening for SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 coming sharply into focus worldwide, scientists are turning now to wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) as a potential tool for assessing and managing the pandemic. This approach is built on the knowledge that some infected persons shed viral particles/RNA in their stool as a result of gastrointestinal infections (GI) and other excreta. Early reports from Wuhan, China, showed that abdominal pain (an indication of GI infections) was reported more frequently in patients admitted into intensive care, than