TECHNOLOGY AND ITS INFLUENCE ON GLOBAL HEALTH

Science and technology are not only providing ease to human but also its expansion added human problems in different infectious disease among them. Global health bodies are finding new opportunities in research in the field of biomedical in under developed countries. There is much needed research and development is required to meet the expectations of these challenges faced globally due to and science and technology development.

Technology is using to face these challenges i.e. biotechnology which can be possible way to face global health challenges in the developing countries especially. These technologies may include: vaccine & drug delivery, recombinant vaccines, molecular diagnostics, recombinant therapeutic proteins, genetically modified crops etc.

Global health issues can be controlled through recombinant vaccines which can not only produce sager vaccine through genetic engineering but also its production of single protein pathogens in to pathogenic microorganisms stops the cause of the diseases. The only problem for these vaccines are refrigeration and cold chain maintain because this ver costly mechanism which required some innovation to provide replacement with affordable one. One method has introduced to reduce cost of cold chain maintenance through dehydrate liquid vaccines in to powder form. Ultimately it will reduce the complexion of delivery of non improved drugs to different regions.

Biomedical Research initiatives require important strides to take in order to take advantage of revolutionized knowledge of biomedical. One of these strides is to make affiliations to government bodies because without support of government these researches will no longer be helpful for anyone.

Increasing health challenges in developing countries are being faced a problem of generating connection between knowledge development and enterprise development. It is obvious to respond health challenges in developing countries are only possible through innovative institutes which required huge sum of investments. Only these institutions can use these researches, technological advancement and science practically.

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