Friday, 11 December 2009

Safepoint founder's TED talk shown on CNN site on World AIDS Day

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Entitled,"The price of saving a life is a few pennies", Marc Koska's TED talk was added to CNN's Opinion site on 1 December 2009, World AIDS Day:


  • Reuse of syringes costs an estimated 1.3 million lives a year
  • Syringes can spread blood-borne diseases such as HIV and hepatitis
  • Low-cost syringes that can be used only once are produced
  • India has mandated use of auto-disable syringes
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