The award-winning LifeStraw® water purifying technology has been integrated into a new refillable water bottle, LifeStraw® Go, ideal for hikers, travelers, outdoor enthusiasts and everyday use. At the ...

There are gadgets that make life more fun, and then there are gadgets that make life possible. The LifeStraw from Denmark's Vestergaard Frandsen Group has the potential to fall into the latter ...

Swiss-based Vestergaard Frandsen–makers of mosquito nets and the LifeStraw–has figured out a solution to turning a profit while saving the world. The company is launching a campaign today that could ...

In recent years, investments in global public health have created opportunities for private innovators, technology developers, and business investors to join the fight against infectious diseases ...

WASHINGTON, Feb. 7 Vestergaard Frandsen, a Europeancompany developing and selling disease control textiles, today announced thelaunch of LifeStraw(R) Family, a new point-of-use product designed to ...

May 11, 2006 — -- Each morning Eunice Jakala wakes at dawn to travel several miles to the local well in Nairobi, Kenya, to fill her pail with potable water for her family. At 65, that walk isn't ...

DUBAI According to a UNICEF report released in August 2010, more than three million children are at high risk of deadly water-borne diseases in Pakistan, making them the most vulnerable victims of the ...

LAUSANNE, Switzerland, Jan. 30, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Mikkel Vestergaard Frandsen is to transition to a new role pursuing further opportunities in humanitarian entrepreneurship, having spent 27 years ...