Medical Services to Begin Shipping VScan Tuberculosis (TB) Rapid Test Kits to Africa

September 27, 2005
Medical Services International Inc. (OTC: MSITF)  wishes to announce that it has begun to ship its VScan (TB) rapid test kits to Africa. The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared a tuberculosis (TB) emergency for Africa. This epidemic kills more than 500,000 Africans each year. With early detection and proper treatment TB can be cured within six months. The crisis has been caused by the increased levels of HIV/AIDS which weakens resistance to such infections. The two diseases occur together so frequently that doctors call them "the terrible twins".

Tuberculosis is mainly a disease of the lungs and each cough spreads thousands of infectious droplets (Mycobacterium tuberculosis). Of the 2 billion people infected with tuberculosis (TB), 200 million worldwide will develop active TB and then be able to infect others. Eight (8) million new TB cases are diagnosed each year. Three million people die from TB each year. TB kills more adults each year than all other infectious diseases combined. TB is the leading killer of people infected with HIV worldwide. Published data shows that more than 35% of HIV patients have undiagnosed TB.

The VScan TB test kit only detects "active" TB and gives NO false positives. There is no other rapid test kit available for Tuberculosis (TB) that is more accurate than the VScan TB test kit. Fast accurate and early diagnosis of TB is the cornerstone of worldwide control and prevention. Left untreated or treated inadequately, one person with active TB will infect as many as 15 people in one year.

Medical Services currently has VScan test kits for both HIV and TB. In early 2006, Medical Services will bring to market its new VScan HIV/TB rapid test kit that detects both HIV and TB at the same time using the same kit. It is felt that this kit will have a significant impact on the market in both detection and treatments. Early detection of TB can speed treatment of HIV/AIDS by prompting patients to seek medical help early enough for the life saving antiretroviral drugs to work. TB can serve as a vital early warning sign for HIV. Drugs that combat TB are cheap and effective and when taken as prescribed for six months they can cure most cases of TB. The solution to stop this TB/HIV/AIDS emergency is to treat TB and HIV/AIDS together.

The combined VScan HIV and TB rapid test kits will be an effective tool in the battle to control these diseases. The new combined VScan HIV/TB rapid test kit will offer the medical profession a significant tool to fight these diseases and at the same time will become as important to the company as the VScan HIV kit by itself has been. These kits use whole blood, are fast and accurate and can be used in areas where there is little or no medical facilities or medical personnel. In addition, the time and expense currently necessary to test for both HIV and TB is significant. Using the VScan rapid test kits for testing reduces the cost by 5 times the current cost to test for both HIV and TB.

About VScan ™

The VScan™ rapid test kit is a single use, easy to use, test for the screening of HIV 1&2, Hepatitis B&C, Tuberculosis (TB), Dengue Fever and West Nile, Malaria, Syphilis, and Prostate Cancer. The kits cannot be sold in Canada.

For further information contact:
Robert Talbot at 780-430-6363 or
Bill Whitehead, Jr., 416-822-5883

Medical Services International Inc. trades in the United States on the NQB Pinksheets under the symbol "MSITF".