The four situations are: (1) developing a locally affordable vaccine, (2) evaluating the local safety and efficacy of an existing vaccine, (3) testing a new vaccine when an existing vaccine is considered inappropriate for local use (e.g. based on epidemiologic or demographic factors), and (4) determining the local burden of disease.
Robust and locally affordable point-of-care tests to measure any base deficit would be highly desirable for the management of severe malaria patients in sub Saharan Africa.
This proposal, if implemented nationally, could provide a bridge the north-south divide, especially if this were to be coupled with extra council tax for second homes for use locally for affordable housing.
"We are committed to offering locally made affordable products, but the cost of sugar is driving manufacturers out of the country," Ms. Calvo-Bacci said, echoing other American candy producers, like the maker of Dum Dum lollipops, that are moving jobs to Mexico to take advantage of the lower sugar prices there.
We supplied a microfinance grant to a group of local mothers/dressmakers to start a microbusiness of affordable, locally made school uniforms for local school children.
Our focus on ED-specific research priorities also fits well within the WHO goal of focusing research on identifying locally effective and affordable solutions and local research priorities [14].
Those who seem to be well positioned are most often unaware of this technology and if they know, it is neither locally available nor affordable nor suited to local conditions.
A traditional healer is usually first consulted, as they are typically local, familiar, affordable, dispense medication for symptoms, and provide locally comprehensible and culturally appropriate explanations of disease causation [ 4, 7, 8, 17].
In Uganda, for example, an initiative has created affordable, locally produced sanitary towels to allow girls who can't afford expensive imported tampons to attend school all month.
But Bloom still believes the project has the potential to bring real and lasting change: "they are providing a very affordable, locally resourced solution - something which many lighting organisations have struggled to do".
Simple technologies that are locally available and affordable such as fencing the wells with readily available materials, and putting SDWs covers/lids would completely remove the problem.
