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Open development and social impact bonds: rethinking healthcare delivery
By incentivising investment through payment on results, and by making information open, local entrepreneurs can fill the gaps and help deliver much needed services
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- Health Care, Impact Assessment
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- impact bonds
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Avon, Amway … Africa?: Can the direct sales agent model work for health goods at the BoP? Part 2
Direct sales agent models are generating a lot of buzz in BoP health care. By recruiting local sales teams to sell health products directly to their communities, social enterprises hope to improve health, provide an income for the salespeople – and make a profit. But can they overcome the challenges of working at the BoP? The SHOPS project studied several approaches in Africa, and lead researcher Michael Kubzansky discusses what works – and what doesn’t – in part 2 of our Q&A.
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- Education, Health Care, Social Enterprise
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- public health, research
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The Airborne Infection That Beats Antibiotics: North Korea’s Other Crisis
Throughout history, TB has killed more people than all other pandemics combined.
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- Health Care
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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Can collaboration resuscitate global health funding?
As support for global health projects declines, governments, NGOs and the private sector will have to be creative and commit to collaboration
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- Health Care
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- governance, lending
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Colombia is world’s first country to wipe out river blindness – WHO
Colombia has become the first country in the world to eradicate river blindness through the distribution of an anti-parasitic drug in affected parts of the South American nation and a sustained health education campaign in local communities, the World Health Organization (WHO) has said.
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- Health Care
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- Latin America
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Breast-feeding woes: Mexico sees dramatic drop of moms nursing, raising concerns over health
Despite the well-known advantages to breast milk and vigorous campaigns around the world championing breast as best, Mexican mothers say the bottle is better.
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- Health Care
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- Latin America
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Avon, Amway … Africa?: Can the direct sales agent model work for health goods at the BoP? Part 1
It’s not easy marketing health products to the BoP. Challenges range from remote distribution to customers’ limited awareness of the products’ benefits or correct usage. That’s why some companies are recruiting local sales teams to sell health products directly to their communities. But how can the Avon/Amway model work for low-margin goods at the BoP? The SHOPS Project analyzed five business models in Africa over 16 months. In Part 1 of this Q&A, lead researcher Michael Kubzansky describes its findings.
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- Education, Health Care, Social Enterprise
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- public health, research
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Pfizer sells key vaccine cheaply to poor countries
Drugmaker Pfizer Inc. has agreed to provide hundreds of millions of doses of its lucrative vaccine against pneumonia and meningitis at a fraction of the usual price for young children in poor countries.
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- Health Care
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