WASHINGTON, Feb. 7 Vestergaard Frandsen, a Europeancompany developing and selling disease control textiles, today announced thelaunch of LifeStraw(R) Family, a new point-of-use product designed to ...

Swiss-based Vestergaard Frandsen–makers of mosquito nets and the LifeStraw–has figured out a solution to turning a profit while saving the world. The company is launching a campaign today that could ...

Given that approximately one sixth of the world's population lacks access to safe drinking water, it would obviously be a very good idea to create something that allows those people to easily and ...

Building off the success of the Lifestraw Personal water filtration device, Vestergaard Frandsen’s new Lifestraw Family system provides 15,000 liters of clean drinking water to one household. And now, ...

Most of us take access to clean water for granted. But for nearly a billion people around the world, clean water is a commodity that’s hard to come by. In places like Sub-Saharan Africa where ...

In recent years, investments in global public health have created opportunities for private innovators, technology developers, and business investors to join the fight against infectious diseases ...

DUBAI According to a UNICEF report released in August 2010, more than three million children are at high risk of deadly water-borne diseases in Pakistan, making them the most vulnerable victims of the ...

A cheap, easy to use, and highly effective tool, the LifeStraw is able to kill nearly 100 percent of the bacteria and viruses found in water Here at Medgadget we cover the latest in high-tech medicine ...

May 11, 2006 — -- Each morning Eunice Jakala wakes at dawn to travel several miles to the local well in Nairobi, Kenya, to fill her pail with potable water for her family. At 65, that walk isn't ...

LAUSANNE, Switzerland, Jan. 30, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Mikkel Vestergaard Frandsen is to transition to a new role pursuing further opportunities in humanitarian entrepreneurship, having spent 27 years ...