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Citizen science-based remote parenting support for lifelong health during COVID-19 lockdown and beyond

Violence in families, including violence against children, and women are increasing in an alarming rate during COVID-19 pandemic-induced lockdown. This initiative will implement and evaluate parenting information dissemination, and interactive learning via facilitated parent-support group-based online discussions using text, audio, video, and visual messages. It aims to provide real-time access to parenting information, and interventions to reduce family violence while improving parent-child relationships and child wellbeing. Evidence-based parenting for lifelong health information (PLH) which

Regional Innovation Networking Platform

Grassroots innovators are innovative individuals that may not necessarily have the requisite educational background or infrastructure to promote the commercialization of their innovations. Their innovative capacity is often driven by necessity and in-depth knowledge of local challenges that could be solved with appropriate technology innovations. The Regional Innovation Networking Platform seeks to identify Grassroot Innovators in the Eastern Cape to support them with tools to help with the commercialization of those innovations. The iHUB is the leading organization and the implementing

Imvoome

Imvoome ( also known as consent ) allows users to secure their travel history, their symptoms self-assessment report, their official COVID-19 test results and any travel clearance or access authorisations issued by authorities. The platform makes it possible to approve and revoke consent to share verified data temporarily or permanently.

Design and testing of novel viral fusion inhibitors against SARS-CoV-2

This project has employed computational (in silico) methods to design a novel class of inhibitors against the SARS-CoV-2 virus (COVID-19). The project has employed state-of-the-art computer-aided drug design (CADD) methods to develop an initial library of putative small molecule inhibitors. Because the compounds are novel, our research group will spend the next 6-18 months synthesizing and characterizing several of the test agents to produce pure, well-characterized compounds for screening. This will be followed by biophysical studies to delineate the binding of the test compounds to the

Delft Imaging

Delft Imaging is a social enterprise and envisions a world in which everyone can benefit from the modern world advances in the field of healthcare. It is this belief that drives our mission to develop and deliver unique health innovations, particularly affordable, innovative diagnostic imaging devices, and e-health software that responds to the specific needs of vulnerable communities around the world. Our main solutions are X-ray systems, Artificial Intelligence software, Mobile Clinic, and Diagnostic Center. Over the past decade, Delft Imaging has particularly been focusing on the screening

Health facility-based observational studies to investigate interaction and overlap between SARS- CoV2, HIV-1 and M. tuberculosis infections (HIATUS)

This programme of projects is focused on understanding and providing information on the clinical presentation and pathogenesis of COVID-19 in the South African population.

Researchers in the HIATUS programme of four related projects will invite hospitalised COVID-19 patients to donate small extra samples of blood and cerebrospinal fluid during normal care procedures.

In the first HIATUS project, the team will investigate the SARS-CoV-2-specific response of T-cells and determine whether these responses correlate with disease outcomes. Results from this study could also provide the basis for

Avril Biopharma Inc

Avril Biopharma, Inc. uses the latest biotechnologies to design, test and manufacture medicines on demand. We address the need for rapid development and production of vaccines, therapeutic and diagnostic products at affordable cost. Our opportunities are in two arenas –Global Health and Personalized Medicine. We have carefully chosen AI, genomics and synthetic biotechnologies to give every patient access to the promise of gene therapy, targeted anti-cancer therapies and many other chronic and infectious disease treatments –at an affordable price.

At present we are seeking immediate funding

Macebo Media

Macebo Media is a 100% black-owned company that was instigated for rendering a variety of ICT & Media services to anyone across Southern Africa. We offer services in Custom Development, Digital Marketing, Aerial Data Solutions, Business Process Management, and Automation. Our experienced team of experts offers tailor-made solutions to meet client requirements.

A 12-month Prospective study: A Self-reported outcome of South African population recovering from COVID-19 pandemic

The brief purpose of this study is to determine the patient-reported outcomes of participants recovering from COVID-19. This is a longitudinal study seeking to study the same population over a period of 12 months in intermittent timepoints. This study will collect data and assess the change in reported outcomes by participants over a period of 12 months. With the current design, assess the mean change averaged across the repeated outcome data. Assess the change in reported outcome over time for patients that had a mild diagnosis, acute and critical. Therefore, the primary hypothesis of the

Understanding Droplet Transmission in a Taxi

This project performs a Continuum Fluid Dynamics CFD study of droplet based transmission and airborne transmission for Tuberculosis (TB) and COVID-19 scenarios in a Taxi environments. The final goal of the study is to guide development of disruptive and innovative interventions for a Taxi to mitigate risk of transmission, despite full loads and long travel irmes, for the driver and the passengers. These interventions could be operating procedures, mechanical devices and sanitisation systems. Their efficacy must be target and deployed based on an understanding of the fluid dynamics affecting

Artificial Intelligence and Diagnosis based on Multiple Data Sources

This project is a large interdisciplinary partnership of Doctors, Public Health Researchers, Data Scientists, Physicists and Engineers. It combines the data sets represented by several sources, including images of chest X-rays, audio recordings of coughs and set sentences, and Natural Language Processing applied to clinician data of patient interviews, and possible from wearable diagnostic devices. The Artificial Intelligence (AI) solution is a weakly supervised Deep Learning network. Its novel in the range of data sources which are unified and then presented coherently to a common AI engine

Understanding Droplet Transmission in a clinical environment

This project performs a Continuum Fluid Dynamics CFD study of droplet based transmission and airborne transmission for Tuberculosis (TB) and COVID-19 scenarios in real clinical environments. The study focuses on the probability of infection for either disease as a function of the environment and how the environment is engineered. The CFD is extended to be able to model a phenomenological medical parameter of infectiousness as a function of droplet based physical, chemical and medical parameters, as they evolve in the ambient and local fluid flow environment. The local environment is realistic

Tulip Industries

Tulip Industries Ltd is a high-tech manufacturer and digital solutions integrator located in the Republic of Guinea. We aim to digitalize the Education, Government, Agriculture, Health and security sectors in developing countries primarily.

We offer a convenient and affordable way for the public to fully access the Internet and other digital content. Our workstations provide full access to web content, scanners, printers, and educational and professional applications. As the internet penetration in Africa is low, with far less smartphones per miles square in rural areas mostly, Tulip

COVID-19 TESTING - AI APPROACH

COVID-19 disease cause pulmonary infections, which could be observed by CT images of the lungs as well as chest X-ray images. Clinicians have been able to observe and diagnose similar infection such pneumonia using this approach. In fact asymptomatic breast cancer and diabetes testing can currently be done using AI image processing.

A anonymised dataset of chest x ray images of Covid-19 infected patients as well as healthy patients is sampled. A convolutional neural network model is trained to analyse chest x -ray images, detect and label COVID-19 infected cases. Mobile chest X ray machines

Makombandlela Youth Development

Makombandlela Youth Development Center was founded by the Honourable Mr. Anthony Maponya to build the general knowledge of Youth in South Africa. The center offers health, emergency, and safety issues assistance within the community in the district of Capricorn, in the Province of Limpopo. Establish in the year of 2016 registered in 2017 as a Non-Profit Organisation.

Zeolite Formulations from Fly Ash

Fly ash is a waste by-product generated by coal-fired electricity power stations. Due to its environmental impact, there is a growing need for safe and sustainable methods of fly ash disposal. One effective approach is the beneficiation of fly ash through the production of zeolites—a class of...