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cord-009765-v20r44lr	Vasan, Aditya	Medical Devices for Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Review and Directions for Development	2020-03-01		.txt	text/plain	5871	317	45	Specifically, this review focuses on diseases prevalent in sub-Saharan Africa and south Asia: melioidosis, infant and maternal mortality, schistosomiasis, and heavy metal and pesticide poisoning. Keywords used to identify diseases and technologies included, but were not limited to, the following terms: medical devices, low-cost design, global health, low-income countries, low-and middle-income countries, pointof-care diagnostics, neglected tropical diseases (NTD), neonatal mortality. The number of people worldwide affected by heavy metal poisoning is difficult to estimate due to the varying sources of poisoning but, given that incidents like the one in Flint that occurred in a developed country with safeguards in place to prevent lead poisoning, there is a need to estimate atmospheric and water-based heavy metal exposure risks across the world. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that 3 Â 10 6 severe pesticide poisonings occur annually and that at least 300,000 people die as a result of exposure, with 99% of these cases being from LMICs [51] .	./cache/cord-009765-v20r44lr.txt	./txt/cord-009765-v20r44lr.txt