05.22.07 - Talking About Sex with your Hands: Vietnam
+ This project aims to develop a sign language - the first of its kind in Asia - to teach hearing impaired young people in Vietnam about sex and reproductive health issues. Carin Van Der Hor, the Vietnam country representative for the World Population Foundation, says the project will directly benefit some 700 young people in three schools in Vietnam but has the potential to be replicated elsewhere in Asia.

05.22.07 - Finca Sana: Health for Highly Mobile Populations
+ Each year an estimated 12,000 indigenous Ngäbe-Buglé workers migrate to Cosa Rica. Their health is rated as among the worst in the world with the migrant families facing no access to potable water or cooking areas and poor sanitation facilities. Listen to Rosilyne Borland of the International Organization for Migration talk about a plan to improve the health of those migrant workers.

05.22.07 - MODS for TB and MDRTB Diagnosis Peru and India
+ The idea behind this project is to provide health education to poor people in Bangladesh by taking advantage of the extensive use of cell phones. Neil Lesh outlines the plan to offer an innovative incentive scheme to encourage people to use cell phones to access health information. The project is aimed at reaching directly about 20,000 people.

05.22.07 - Distributing Information on Cell Phones; Bangladesh
+ Listen to David Moore from the organization, AB Prisma, outline a plan to improve the diagnostic capacity of laboratories in two poor communities in Peru and India to test for tuberclosis and multi-drug resistant tuberclosis. The plan is expected to benefit a government laboratory in Lima serving two million people and a TB laboratory in Chennai serving 10,00 HIV-infected people.

05.22.07 - 
+ Listen to Bart Weetjins, one of this year's judges at Development Marketplace. Back in 2003, Weetjens was a winner of a grant with a novel idea to use rats to sniff out bacteria from people's spit. With a microscope, a lab technician can process a maximum of 30 TB samples a day, but Weetkins explains a rat can screen the same amount in seven minutes. With funding from Development Marketplace, APOPO, a Belgian research organization, of which Weetjens is a director, built a research facility in Tanzania.

05.22.07 - Development of Nursing in Vietnam
+ Peggy Coyle of the Vietnam Nurses Association speaks about plans to imrpove people's quality of health care in Vietnam by introducing a new model for educating nurses. Coyle says nurses in Vietnam are oftener underutilized, because of lack of adequate training, so the idea is to imrpove training so it's in line with international standards, which will also help the coountry cope with issues like avian flu.

05.22.07 - MODS for TB and MDRTB Diagnosis Peru and India
+ Listen to David Moore from the organization, AB Prisma, outline a plan to improve the diagnostic capacity of laboratories in two poor communities in Peru and India to test for tuberclosis and multi-drug resistant tuberclosis. The plan is expected to benefit a government laboratory in Lima serving two million people and a TB laboratory in Chennai serving 10,00 HIV-infected people.

05.22.07 - Fuel from the Fields: Haiti
+ In Haiti, half the population uses wood and  agricultural residues as their primary cooking fuel. But breathing the smoke from these fires leads to lung infections, especially in children. Cleaner wood burner charcoal is expensive. Listen to Amy Smith outline a plan to use agricultural waste materials such as used corn cobs to create agro-charcoal - at a lower cost than current methods.

05.22.07 - Camel Backpacks in Kenya
+ People in Kenya's remote communities lack access to basic healthcare as well as health education. This innovative project proposes to put backpacks on camels so health workers can reach remote communities and use the backpacks to dispense immunizations. As Mary Fay from the Mpala Community Trust explains, there'll be solar panels on the backpacks on the camels' backs to keep medicines chilled for the long journey through Kenya's remote communities.

05.22.07 - Walk in Clinic for Masses: India
+ B. P. Agrawal outlines a plan to reduce the incidence of common ailments and preventable diseases through setting up kiosk-based clinics in rural Rajasthan. B.P. Agrawal is no stranger to Development Marketplace, as he was a winner last year with another project. His focus this time is healthcare in rural Rajasthan, a region with some of the worst health indicators in India.

05.22.07 - Not Just a Piece of Cloth: India
+ Anshu Gupta outlines a plan to improve the reproductive health of women living in villages and slums in India by providing them with affordable, clean and easy to use sanitary napkins, made of recycled clothes.

05.22.07 - Nepal Telehealth in Rural Nepal
+ Nepal is ranked as among the least developed countries in the world and about 80 percent of peole live in rural areas. Listen to Gerda Pohl describe a plan to improve primary healthcare services through the introduction of information and communication technologies to rural health centres.

05.22.07 - Soybean-enriched school breakfasts in Bolivia
+ About 38 percent of children under five and 25 percent of children between 5 and 12 years in Bolivia suffer some level of malnutrition. Hear Jorge Abela, of the health non government organization, Prosalud, outline a plan to develop local products while at the same time improve children's nutrition levels - all through soybean breakfasts.

05.22.07 - The New Sudan School of Health Sciences
+ Listen to Abraham Awolich of the New Sudan Health Initiative outline a plan to train 5000 people in Sudan as community health workers - with the emphasis on the health workers being women, returning refugees and de-commissioned soldiers.

05.22.07 - Micro Health Insurance in Peru
+ Listen to Diego Fernandez Concha outline a plan to provide 5,000 low income families in Peru with basic healthcare by creating a micro-insurance health plan and establishing three medical offices. It's estimated about 25 percent of Peru's citizens lack access to health services because of economic and geographic barriers.

05.22.07 - Suppression of Dengue Transmission with Novel Mosquito Traps
+ Martin Geiyer outlines a noval plan to trap mosquitoes and so stop the spread of dengue fever.

05.22.07 - Access to CD4 Testing in Rural Malawi
+ Petra Krauledat of Point Care Technologies outlines a plan for mobile testing for HIV in rural Malawi - a plan she believes can be replicated throughout  Africa.

05.22.07 - Emergency Taxi Service for Ghana
+ Yannick Milev of Village Exchange talks about a plan to improve people's access to health care services in rural areas of Ghana by starting an emergency taxi service.

05.22.07 - Home-Based Public Malnutrition Treatment, Haiti
+ Child malnutrition is one of the world's most serious health problems. In Haiti it's estimated there are 162,000 malnourished children.  Patricia Barrett Wolff explains what she calls an innovative idea to partner with the public health service of Haiti to provide children with ready to use therapeutic food.

05.22.07 - Micro-Nutrient Express Capsules, Philippines
+ Bonifacio Comandante explains a proposal for to imrpove the nutritional health of poor people in the Philippines by producing and selling Spirulina algae fortified shell fish food and capsules.

05.22.07 - Peer Driven Civilian and Prison TB
Control Program
+ Wieslaw Jakubowiak from WHO explains a plan to diagnose and treat tuberclosis among Russia's most vulnerable people through a program linking the civilian and penitentiary sectors. Russia is considered by WHO to be one of the world's 22 high burdened TB countries.