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<p> Marc Koska OBE and The SafePoint Trust would like to invite you to support them on:</p>
<p><strong>The<em> Tanzania Campaign </em></strong></p>
<p><strong><em>Have a look at Clare's justgiving page too: </em></strong><a id="cphMain_cphJGSiteContent__accountContent__yourPageHeader__pageUrl" href="http://www.justgiving.com/safeinjections-Africa"><strong><em>http://www.justgiving.com/safeinjections-Africa</em></strong></a></p>
<p><strong><em>Our "Kili Mums" have returned after their amazing experience and a very successful press conference in Dar Es Salaam. </em></strong></p>
<p><strong><em>Please continue to support us in raising as much as possible to make our donations of auto-disable syringes to Tanzania!</em></strong></p>
<p><strong><em>Our mission continues and we will keep you posted every step of the way.</em></strong></p>
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<p><strong><em>To follow our blog: </em></strong><a title="SafePoint Blog" href="http://safepointtrust.blogspot.com">http://safepointtrust.blogspot.com</a></p>
<p><em><em><strong>Safepoint is a charity set up with a purpose to educate the next generation in safe healthcare.</strong></em></em></p>
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<div><strong><em>This is done by delivering hard-hitting public awareness campaigns. We've done this to huge effect in India in 2008, resulting (April 2009) in the Health Minister mandating the use of Auto Disable syringes throughout all government run hospitals. To date Safepoint is credited with saving well over 9 million lives.</em></strong></div>
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<div><em><em><strong><strong>Why Tanzania?</strong></strong></em></em></div>
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<div><em><em><strong>Tanzania is at the forefront of safe healthcare in Africa and are one of only two countries converted to Auto Disable syringes in the ECSA Region. With their policy already in place, trained healthcare workers and a public information film donated by Safepoint, they are ready to reduce the country's medical costs and ease the HIV/Hepatitis disease burden.<br />We're climbing this mountain to kick off phase one of this new campaign, by raising public awareness through all forms of media. We'll be visiting schools, orphanages and hospitals to talk with children, teachers and healthcare workers alike.... getting the simple message across - "one injection - one syringe" - and donating syringes to kickstart their participation in campaign.<br /><strong>Some facts and figures on unsafe healthcare:</strong></strong></em></em></div>
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<div><em><em><strong>• Each and every year due to unsafe injections there are:<br />• 23,000 HIV Infections<br />• 1,000,000 Hepatitis C Infections<br />• 21,000,000 Hepatitis B Infections<br />• RESULTING IN 1,300,000 DEATHS EACH YEAR (Source: WHO World Health Organisation)<br />• Some 17 billion injections are given each year, and 7 billion of these are unsafe medical injections (Source: Hutin 2003)<br />• Malaria kills 1,000,000 - so this silent epidemic kills more people each year (Source: WHO World Health Organisation)<br />• In Africa 20 million medical injections contaminated with blood from a patient with HIV are administered every year (Source: Reid 2009)<br />• At least 50% of injections given were unsafe (Source: WHO World Health Organisation)<br />• A syringe is used on average 7 times in the developing world<br />• Every 24 seconds a child dies as a result of an unsafe injection<br /><br />If you feel you'd like to support me in raising money for this campaign, I'd be delighted!
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<div>Watch the reasons here: <a href="http://www.vimeo.com/12771304">http://tempuri.org/tempuri.html</a> <a href="http://www.vimeo.com/12788179">http://tempuri.org/tempuri.html</a></div>
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