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Finding the Right Temperature for Public/Private Partnerships: An Interview With the Head of Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves
Radha Muthiah, executive director of the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves, has about 100 million reasons for looking toward innovative ways to partner and collaborate with social enterprises, development agencies and NGOs. I caught up with her at the BoP Summit last month to talk about new modes of thinking around public-private partnerships.
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- Energy
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We Have Seen the Future, and It’s Universal: Single-payer systems being penciled onto BoP health care’s ‘blank slate’
There’s a worldwide movement toward universal health coverage because, as one expert says, “systems that rely on direct, out-of-pocket expenditures lead to inequities. … They just don’t work very well.” Next up is identifying the sources of financing and care.
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- Health Care, Technology
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Building innovative PPPs to fight poverty-related diseases
Innovative forms of across-sectors partnerships add value and accelerate innovation in the fight against poverty-related and neglected tropical diseases, and at the same time contribute to the EU’s research and development policy goals.
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- Health Care
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Building public-private partnerships for better access to health products
Improving health outcomes for the most vulnerable people requires global funding and collaboration – but neither will have an impact without effective systems for delivering health products and care. Strong supply chains, while critical for improving lives, are rarely the focus of programmes that aim to achieve the millennium development goals or end deaths from preventable disease. As World Health Organisation director-general Dr. Margaret Chan has said, "All the donated drugs in the world won't do any good without an infrastructure for their delivery."
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- Health Care
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Oiling the Vaccine Supply Chain: Corporate expertise helps give more kids a shot at a healthy life
About 20 percent of the world’s children go unvaccinated, leading to more than 1.5 million avoidable deaths annually. Many are due to inadequate vaccine delivery systems. A new initiative aims to ease this problem by tapping into global corporations’ supply chain expertise.
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- Health Care
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Africa: Gavi On Track to Immunize One-Quarter Billion Children By 2015
The GAVI alliance - a public-private global health partnership previously known as the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization - has announced it is on track to immunize a quarter of a billion children against killer diseases by 2015. The organization said nearly four million children's lives will be saved thanks to these additional vaccinations.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Creative Device Meets Innovative Business Model: BD, partners scaling up technology designed to reduce maternal and newborn deaths
Becton, Dickinson and Co.is partnering with the World Health Organization and Saving Lives at Birth to scale up the Odon Device – a new technology designed to reduce maternal and newborn mortality.
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- Health Care
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Combining Profitability and Social Impact: Salud Fácil makes a commitment to health in Mexico’s low-income communities
In Mexico, people seeking health care in the overburdened public sector must often wait six to eight months. Salud Facil offers them low-cost financing so they can seek treatment in the private sector, where there is excess capacity.
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- Health Care