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BMC International Health and Human Rights

Issue Special Issue 1/2010

Health innovation in sub-Saharan Africa

Content (13 Articles)

Open Access Introduction

African health innovation systems: preface

Calestous Juma

Open Access Research

Science-based health innovation in sub-Saharan Africa

Sara Al-Bader, Hassan Masum, Ken Simiyu, Abdallah S Daar, Peter A Singer

Open Access Research

Science-based health innovation in Ghana: health entrepreneurs point the way to a new development path

Sara Al-Bader, Abdallah S Daar, Peter A Singer

Open Access Research

Science-based health innovation in Rwanda: unlocking the potential of a late bloomer

Kenneth Simiyu, Abdallah S Daar, Mike Hughes, Peter A Singer

Open Access Research

Science-based health innovation in Tanzania: bednets and a base for invention

Ronak Shah, Peter A Singer, Abdallah S Daar

Open Access Research

Science-based health innovation in Uganda: creative strategies for applying research to development

Sheila Kamunyori, Sara Al-Bader, Nelson Sewankambo, Peter A Singer, Abdallah S Daar

Open Access Research

Africa's largest long-lasting insecticide-treated net producer: lessons from A to Z Textiles

Hassan Masum, Ronak Shah, Karl Schroeder, Abdallah S Daar, Peter A Singer

Open Access Research

Can incubators work in Africa? Acorn Technologies and the entrepreneur-centric model

Justin Chakma, Hassan Masum, Peter A Singer

Open Access Research

Harnessing biodiversity: the Malagasy Institute of Applied Research (IMRA)

Manveen Puri, Hassan Masum, Jennifer Heys, Peter A Singer

Open Access Research

Turning science into health solutions: KEMRI’s challenges as Kenya’s health product pathfinder

Ken Simiyu, Hassan Masum, Justin Chakma, Peter A Singer

Open Access Research

The road to commercialization in Africa: lessons from developing the sickle-cell drug Niprisan

Kumar Perampaladas, Hassan Masum, Andrew Kapoor, Ronak Shah, Abdallah S Daar, Peter A Singer

Open Access Research

Venture funding for science-based African health innovation

Hassan Masum, Justin Chakma, Ken Simiyu, Wesley Ronoh, Abdallah S Daar, Peter A Singer