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Business Models, Best Practices and Measures in Access to Medicine: Index to be released Monday ranks pharmaceutical companies’ efforts to improve availability in developing countries
The Access to Medicine Index, which is published every two years and independently ranks pharmaceutical companies’ efforts to improve access to medicine in developing countries, will be released on Monday.
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Shaping the Market for Global Health Data: Why collecting information on lower-income countries should be ‘first order of business’
The most valuable currency in global health programs today is accurate and reliable data, but such data doesn’t exist for most low-income and lower-middle-income countries – primarily because it’s expensive. The authors discuss why, and how, more data might become available.
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Separating Potential from Panacea: USAID’s primer offers a disciplined approach to market shaping
While market shaping can be transformative, it’s not a cure-all. USAID’s primer offers a disciplined approach to examining a health product market and evaluating whether and how market shaping could increase access for end users.
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How Price Discrimination is Good for Global Health (Part 2): Patricia Danzon describes how the concept, despite its theoretical upside, ‘is not working very well’ in practice
?In Part 1 of her interview with NBHC, professor Patricia Danzon of The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania laid out some of the advantages of differential pricing in pharmaceuticals. In Part 2, she describes how the concept works in practice, including the key role of politics in its implementation.
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How Price Discrimination is Good for Global Health (Part 1): Professor Patricia Danzon of The Wharton School discusses differential pricing in pharmaceuticals
Professor Patricia Danzon of The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, discusses differential pricing -- sometimes called price discrimination -- which she maintains increases utilization of medicines and, therefore, overall social welfare.
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- Education, Health Care
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Sustainable Access to Safe Drinking Water and Sanitation: Lessons learned from market-based approaches in India
After working with a number of key players in the water and sanitation business, the author, Urvashi Prasad, has compiled a list of factors that could enable for-profit players to fulfill the dual objectives of making profits and doing social good by bringing essential services to people who need them the most.
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- Agriculture, Entrepreneurship, Health Care
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How to Be an International Dealmaker: Market nudges are building global vaccine markets
Vaccines are effective and relatively inexpensive health interventions but, for a variety of reasons, many potential vaccines are never developed, distributed or tailored to work effectively in the Global South. Recent risk reduction measures, however, show promise toward reducing vaccine prices and increasing access while engaging manufacturers and stimulating innovation in the market.
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The Long Road to Scale: Deciphering the mHealth value chain for family planning
CycleTel helps women access family planning on their phones. But before its developers at Georgetown University could begin with product development, they had to understand the nuances of delivering personal information on a mobile phone.
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- Entrepreneurship, Health Care, Technology
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