Ghana's student founders took a stevia sweetener and a seizure-warning wearable to Nairobi

Three young companies from Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology took their work to Nairobi this week, to the Africa Health Collaborative Convening. Dr Edmond Kwabena Agyapong founded Metagrade after meeting a distressed patient with diabetes during a hospital internship; its VeriSweet stevia sweetener has made over 1,000 sales in three months and reached 36 hospitals in Accra. Deborah Jessica Oppong's Dielle pairs plant-based hair care with education and has sold more than 3,000 products since 2022. A third team, SeizureGuard, is working toward a wearable that could warn of epileptic seizures. All three are backed by the university's health collaborative with the Mastercard Foundation.

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