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The number of children infected by HIV continues to grow daily. Today, there may be as many as 2.1 million children worldwide inflicted with the disease. Over the past 15
years, several options have become available for treating children and preventing the transmission of HIV from mother to child. Where more expensive and advanced forms of treatment are unavailable, the WHO recommends delivering a single dose of liquid nevirapine to the infant shortly after
birth. This has been found to help prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV.
The problem is that a single, small dose of 0.6 ml of nevirapine must be provided to a mother so that when she gives birth (some number of months later and many
miles away), she can deliver the dose to her newborn. A team has developed a simple foil package that can receive a small dose of liquid medication and be sealed for transportation and temporary storage.
The aim of our design project is to develop a bottle topper for the liquid nevirapine medicine bottle. It has to be capable of 1) measuring out the correct dose (0.6 ml) of nevirapine, 2) delivering the dose to the packaging, and 3) resealing the medicine bottle to prevent contamination.
