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Egg-based platform for design, development and manufacturing of COVID-19 countermeasures.

Avril Biopharma’s main focus is rapid development of diagnostic, vaccine and therapeutic products using bioinformatics to design these products and our AdCEV(TM) protein expression technology to produce them inexpensively in hen eggs.
We are using our platform to address the urgent public-health demand for COVID-19 diagnostic testing and safe vaccine production. We are developing simple point-of-care test-kit products including a 5-10 minute saliva test for SARS-CoV-2 infection using components we can make in hen eggs. With our high yields, enough material for thousands of individual tests

Avril Biopharma Inc

Avril Biopharma, Inc. is an emerging company founded by Dr. Eluemuno Blyden that uses the latest biotechnologies to design, test and manufacture protein-based medicines on demand. We address the need for rapid production of affordable vaccines, therapeutic antibodies and diagnostic products.

Our opportunities are in two arenas –Global Health and Personalized Medicine. We have brought together the latest AI, genomics and synthetic biotechnologies to offer every patient access to the powerful promise of gene therapy, as well as chronic and infectious disease treatments – at an affordable price

Digital Square at PATH

Digital Square focuses on creating better alignment to accelerate health equity through the development, adoption, scale, and delivery of digital health innovations. Digital Square brings partners together to improve how the global community designs, uses and pays for digital health tools and approaches. By strengthening the coordination among these partners, Digital Square reorients the market to better match tools and approaches to the needs of countries and communities.

Alignment and Co-Investment

Digital Square helps to identify promising investment opportunities and provides

PLANT-BASED SOLUTIONS TO ADDRESS THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC

Africa is highly vulnerable to the current COVID-19 pandemic. While several vaccine and antiviral candidates to prevent
COVID-19 infection are currently under development, they most likely will be expensive, difficult to transport
and distribute to remote areas and not available in sufficient quantities to administer to everyone.
Our solution is to use a plant production platform to generate vaccines, antiviral drugs and other pharmaceutical proteins. We use
our production platform to rapidly make safe vaccines which are stable at ambient temperatures, easy to scale up
and inexpensive

Strategy for pooled testing to scale up covid-19 testing capacity in The Gambia

The National Public Health Laboratory (NPHL) is the nerve center of the Gambia’s national anti-covid19 strategy. In recent weeks we have worked closely with colleagues at the MRC Unit the Gambia at LSHTM to develop COVID-19 diagnostic testing capacity at NPHL. As a COVID-19 testing center we can contribute towards increasing national testing capacity. However, with only two testing centers in the Gambia and limited resources to meet the potential demand for high numbers of tests, there is a dire need to explore innovative solutions for scaling up COVID-19 testing capacity in a short space of

Debainblue Digital

The private and the public sector needs to be able to act quickly to address society’s most pressing challenges—today more than ever. Remote work and education is a crucial resources, but to be effective, the private and public sector learners and workers need access to powerful, flexible, accelerated computing from wherever they are.

Debainblue Digital are leaders in the deployment of Ai based technologies. Our team is well-experienced in the fields of medicine, technology, and ICT. The company has shifted its focus to combating the COVID-19 pandemic in Africa. We provide not just the

IDEA VIRTUAL SCHOOL SOLUTIONS

Universal access, low student engagement, informal curriculum
alignment and limited measurability of educational outcomes are
all key problems with the current remote or virtual learning
programs undertaken in large scale public-private educational
technology deployments. COVID-19 has further widened the gap
between remote, peri-urban, low-income public sector students
and private education students.

IDEA has created an outcome, data-driven and interactive virtual
school solution that is device and connectivity agnostic. Working
on a mobile phone, tablet, computer or projector the IDEA

OCTOPUS AND HEALTHSCAN

My name is Mountaga Keita, inventor and founder of Tulip Industries Ltd, based in Conakry (GUINEA). We manufacture interactive and energy-independent medical technologies.
The healthcare sector in Africa is undergoing a tremendous transformation from traditional medicine to a modern and well-structured healthcare system; Yet, Africa’s healthcare industry is characterized by a disparity between private and public sectors, both in terms of facilities and funding;
the Globalization of the world economies, with mass traffics and trades, makes it easy for pandemic outbreaks to reach a global scale

Technology Readiness Levels (TRL) - explained

The purpose of the article is to describe, explain and provide more detail on Technology Readiness Levels. The information is provided by The University of Cape Town (UCT).

Drone Eye Technology

Andile Nkosenhle Vilakazi and Isago Kaitshane are co-founders and managers of Drone Eye Technology which was established in 2019 to ensure that farmers meet the growing demand and on-going need for fresh vegetables in South Africa. This will be achieved through using two concepts, Tech-driven Organic Crop Protection which is designed for small scale farmers and Precision Agriculture made better through Drone Eye Technology which is designed for large scale farmers. Crop Management is the most important task on a farm; the crop management cycle is split into six phases, namely, planning

Bateman Watling & Associates

Based in Johannesburg, South Africa, BWA is the Channel Partner representing IHS Markit Product Design & Supply Chain in Sub – Saharan Africa.

IHS Markit is the worldwide leader in providing technical standards & specifications, journals, patents intelligence, root cause analysis and parts management databases to corporations around the world.

IHS Markit products and services serve the critical information needs of many industries including oil & gas, construction, petrochemical, aviation, and electronics.

Discover an online platform that simplifies and expedites the process for finding and

In vitro Molecular RNA-seq data for rapid diagonostic testing and validating RT-qPCR reference genes for studying respiratory specimens from Persons Under Investigation (PUIs), with Suspected or Confirmed Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19).

The SARS coronavirus (SCoV) appears to be zoonotic and to have originated in wild mammals in southern China. A coronavirus comprises single-stranded RNA inside a lipid envelope. Coronaviruses cause a substantial fraction of human colds and a number of common respiratory infections in other animals, including livestock and poultry. The recent COVID-19 outbreak of a novel type of coronavirus that began in China has prompted a massive global effort to contain and slow its spread. Despite those efforts, over the last month the virus has begun circulating outside of China in multiple countries and

Establishing a national COVID 19 wastewater and non-sewer based water quality survaillance programme

Surveillance of wastewater treatment plants offers an opportunity for near–real-time outbreak data and as an early warning for resurgence of the outbreak. To date, the wastewater-based epidemiology approach has been successfully piloted in developed countries where there is wide coverage of waterborne sanitation, such as the Netherlands, France, United States of America, etc. However, given the varied water and sanitation services delivery mechanisms in South Africa (and lack of), the country, through the Water Research Commission, is in a unique position to pioneer the development and

Avethandwa projects and cleaning services

Avethandwa projects and cleaning services was established in 2015, providing quality cleaning services at a reasonable cost. Dedicated to supply and distribute cleaning products direct to the customers. Avethandwa projects and cleaning services is dedicated to bringing you the best choice in cleaning services, hospitality and Bulk Cleaning products.

Clinical effectiveness of lopinavir in the management of Covid-19 infection and prevention.

COVID-19 also known as Coronavirus 2019, is currently declared by WHO as a new pandemic
disease caused by a single-stranded RNA zoonotic virus termed severe acute respiratory syndrome
coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) (Lu et al. 2020). The complete viral genome analysis shows that the
virus shares 88% sequence identity to two bat-derived severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS)-
like coronaviruses, but more distant from severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARSCoV) (Lu et al. 2020). Coronavirus is an enveloped and single-stranded ribonucleic acid named
for its solar corona like appearance

Magnetic beads nucleic acid extraction technology

The bottleneck to most of the molecular (PCR) testing is due to lack of nucleic acid extraction kits. Where available, the possibility of automation enhances the speed with which one can access high throughput extraction. Therefore, development and manufacture of efficient extraction reagents is the first step towards pandemic/infectious disease outbreak readiness. The lessons from Covid-19 outbreak should include countries readying themselves against such outbreaks by manufacturing their own reagents and having the ability to ramp up production when necessary. Our product development and