AFRIHEALTH CONFERENCE NOVEMBER 30 & DECEMBER 1
Ngeno,Titus
Dear All,
Afritech will
provide a major 2-day exhibition presenting a diverse range of subject topics
relating to healthcare in Africa, and we hope to attract hundreds of healthcare
professionals from the region and around the world to its doors.
As an exhibitor this will provide you with unrivalled exposure, the opportunity to showcase your complete range of products and the chance to interact with professionals from around the world who use your equipment and services.
Why Africa?
- Expand your business into a new and emerging market
· Active Government support in recent years means a continued focus on healthcare expansion
· A growing market demand for better healthcare as a result of the above
· Increased opportunities for the supply of hospital equipment, instrumentation, machinery and other products and services
· Imports are a major part of the country's trading activity
· Price-sensitive market: Buyers are always looking out for competitively priced goods
· Set yourself apart from your competitors
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Problem Statement: Great Need. Disinterested Youth.
§ One child dies of malaria every 29 seconds
§ One person is infected with HIV every 6.4 seconds
§ Someone in the world dies of TB every 18 seconds
§ One pregnant woman dies of complications every 60 seconds
§ Half the world — nearly three billion people — live on less than two dollars a day.
§ Nearly a billion people entered the 21st century unable to read a book or sign their names.
§ Less than one per cent of what the world spent every year on weapons was needed to put every child into school
While the author does not intend to make this a foreign policy argument, the headlines speak for themselves. The strategy of leaving the world in destitute poverty while we enjoy the comforts of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness is not working.
Spirit of Christmas Present: My time with you is
at an end, Ebenezer Scrooge. Will you profit from what I've shown you of the
good in most men's hearts?
Ebenezer:
I don't know. I don't know if I can change!
Spirit
of Christmas Present: If it's too hard a lesson for you to
learn, then learn this lesson!
[opens his robe, revealing two starving children]
Ebenezer:
[shocked] Spirit, are these your children?
Spirit
of Christmas Present: They are Man's. This boy is Ignorance,
this girl is Want. Beware them both, but most of all, beware this boy!
Ebenezer:
But have they no refuge?
Spirit
of Christmas Present: [quoting Scrooge] Are there no
prisons? Are there no workhouses?
I
have endeavoured in this Ghostly little book, to raise the Ghost of an Idea,
which shall not put my readers out of humour with themselves, with each other,
with the season, or with me. May it haunt their houses pleasantly, and no one
wish to lay it.
Their faithful Friend and Servant,
Charles Dickens.
December, 1843.
Ngeno,Titus
Dear All,
Aitech will
provide a major 2-day exhibition presenting a diverse range of subject topics
relating to healthcare in Africa, and we hope to attract hundreds of healthcare
professionals from the region and around the world to its doors.