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Marc Kosha apresenta 1,3 milhões de razões para reinventar a seringa

Filmed Jul 2009 • Posted Oct 2009TEDGlobal 2009
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A reutilização de seringas, um lugar comum em clínicas sub-financiadas, mata 1,3 milhões de pessoas cada ano. Marc Kosha alerta-nos para este devastador problema global através de factos, fotografias e reportagens obtidas com câmaras ocultas. Ele propõe a sua solução: uma seringa de baixo-custo impossível de ser reutilizada.

Marc Koska wants to improve health care in the developing world by re-designing dangerous medical tools -- and offering education to practitioners in under-funded clinics. Full bio »

Translated into Portuguese by João Mestre Costa
Reviewed by Sérgio Lopes
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