SolidarMed In close collaboration with EssentialTech and the Laboratory for Functional Inorganic Materials (LFIM) at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), SolidarMed is developing a cold box over the next two years that does not require electricity and can maintain a temperature of 2 to 8 °C for weeks. In low-income areas, the lack of a continuous cold chain, for example due to an unstable electricity grid, means that vaccine doses have to be disposed of. Every year, 25% of vaccinations have to be disposed of for this reason. Every year, 1.5 million children under the age of five die due to lack of access to vaccinations. This situation is unacceptable.
