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Review of investigational medical devices' clinical trials and regulations in Africa as a benchmark for new innovations
Medical technologies present a huge potential in improving global health playing a key role toward achieving Sustainable Development Goal 3 by 2030. A number of clinicians, innovators, business entities and biomedical engineers among others have developed a number of innovative medical devices and t...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9368574/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35968546 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmedt.2022.952767 |
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author | Matovu, Brian Takuwa, Mercy Mpaata, Charles Norman Denison, Fiona Kiwanuka, Noah Lewis, Steff Norrie, John Ononge, Sam Muhimbise, Owen Tuck, Sharon Etuket, Maureen Dimitri Ssekitoleko, Robert T. |
author_facet | Matovu, Brian Takuwa, Mercy Mpaata, Charles Norman Denison, Fiona Kiwanuka, Noah Lewis, Steff Norrie, John Ononge, Sam Muhimbise, Owen Tuck, Sharon Etuket, Maureen Dimitri Ssekitoleko, Robert T. |
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description | Medical technologies present a huge potential in improving global health playing a key role toward achieving Sustainable Development Goal 3 by 2030. A number of clinicians, innovators, business entities and biomedical engineers among others have developed a number of innovative medical devices and technologies to address the healthcare challenges especially in Africa. Globally, medical devices clinical trials present the most acceptable method for determining the risks and benefits of medical device innovations with the aim of ascertaining their effectiveness and safety as compared with established medical practice. However, there are very few medical device clinical trials reported in Africa compared to other regions like USA, UK and Europe. Most of the medical device clinical trials reported in Africa are addressing challenges around HIV/AIDS, maternal health and NCDs. In this mini review, we report about some of the published medical device clinical trials in Africa PubMed and Google Scholar and their associated challenges. |
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spelling | pubmed-93685742022-08-12 Review of investigational medical devices' clinical trials and regulations in Africa as a benchmark for new innovations Matovu, Brian Takuwa, Mercy Mpaata, Charles Norman Denison, Fiona Kiwanuka, Noah Lewis, Steff Norrie, John Ononge, Sam Muhimbise, Owen Tuck, Sharon Etuket, Maureen Dimitri Ssekitoleko, Robert T. Front Med Technol Medical Technology Medical technologies present a huge potential in improving global health playing a key role toward achieving Sustainable Development Goal 3 by 2030. A number of clinicians, innovators, business entities and biomedical engineers among others have developed a number of innovative medical devices and technologies to address the healthcare challenges especially in Africa. Globally, medical devices clinical trials present the most acceptable method for determining the risks and benefits of medical device innovations with the aim of ascertaining their effectiveness and safety as compared with established medical practice. However, there are very few medical device clinical trials reported in Africa compared to other regions like USA, UK and Europe. Most of the medical device clinical trials reported in Africa are addressing challenges around HIV/AIDS, maternal health and NCDs. In this mini review, we report about some of the published medical device clinical trials in Africa PubMed and Google Scholar and their associated challenges. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-07-28 /pmc/articles/PMC9368574/ /pubmed/35968546 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmedt.2022.952767 Text en Copyright © 2022 Matovu, Takuwa, Mpaata, Denison, Kiwanuka, Lewis, Norrie, Ononge, Muhimbise, Tuck, Etuket and Ssekitoleko. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Medical Technology Matovu, Brian Takuwa, Mercy Mpaata, Charles Norman Denison, Fiona Kiwanuka, Noah Lewis, Steff Norrie, John Ononge, Sam Muhimbise, Owen Tuck, Sharon Etuket, Maureen Dimitri Ssekitoleko, Robert T. Review of investigational medical devices' clinical trials and regulations in Africa as a benchmark for new innovations |
title | Review of investigational medical devices' clinical trials and regulations in Africa as a benchmark for new innovations |
title_full | Review of investigational medical devices' clinical trials and regulations in Africa as a benchmark for new innovations |
title_fullStr | Review of investigational medical devices' clinical trials and regulations in Africa as a benchmark for new innovations |
title_full_unstemmed | Review of investigational medical devices' clinical trials and regulations in Africa as a benchmark for new innovations |
title_short | Review of investigational medical devices' clinical trials and regulations in Africa as a benchmark for new innovations |
title_sort | review of investigational medical devices' clinical trials and regulations in africa as a benchmark for new innovations |
topic | Medical Technology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9368574/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35968546 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmedt.2022.952767 |
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