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‘I’m not a designer, but I had to learn to be one,’ says Brian Gitta of his first product design, a malariascreening device that does not require a blood sample. Nor is he a doctor. Yet Gitta’s Ugandan studio ThinkIt has developed what could be a breakthrough in the fight against this still-too-prevalent killer disease. ‘Freeing the world of

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