Medical Services
International Inc (OTC: MSITF) wishes to announce that it has been
approached by distributors in an additional 5 countries in Africa to start
supplying the VScan HIV and TB rapid test kits. Currently it has been
reported that the test kits being supplied to these countries are very
inaccurate (less than 80% accuracy when compared to conventional tests).
Inaccurate kits are worse than no kits as these kits miss HIV positive
people, giving a false sense of security, therefore increasing the spread
of HIV. The distributors have heard about the continued accuracy of the
VScan HIV test kits and have been given copies of the test data from
regulatory bodies in other countries showing the accuracy of the VScan HIV
test kits.
The distributors have indicated that this could result in the purchase
of up to an additional 2,000,000 VScan test kits per year. The Company
believes that by the end of 2007, it will be the largest supplier of HIV,
TB, Dengue Fever and Malaria rapid test kits in the world.
About VScan
The VScan rapid test kit is a single use, disposable, accurate, cost
effective, easy to use test for the screening of HIV 1&2, Hepatitis B&C,
Tuberculosis (TB), Dengue Fever, West Nile, Syphilis, Malaria and Prostate
cancer. The kits cannot be sold in Canada.
Medical Services International Inc trades in the United States on the
NQB Pinksheets under the symbol "MSITF". For further information go to
medicalservicesintl or minerva-biotech.
Certain statements in this press release are "forward-looking
statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Act of 1995. Such
statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors
that may cause results to differ materially. Such risks, uncertainties and
other factors include but are not limited to new economic conditions, risk
in product development, market acceptance of new products and continuing
product demand, level of competition and other factors described in Company
reports an other filings with regulatory bodies.
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