2011
Better Data, Better Patient Tracking and Product Management
Kyetume Community Based Health Care Programme (KCBHCP) strives to improve the general health of underserved rural people in Mukono District, Uganda. Read more
Leveraging Research and Date for Thought Leadership
loveLife is South Africa’s national HIV prevention initiative for young people ages 12-24. With a network of programs that extended to 900 sites across nine provinces, the nonprofit melded behavior change with clinical services through youth-friendly programs and, in less than a decade, had become an essential part of South African life. Read more
Optimizing Materials Distribution to Reach Underserved Youth
loveLife is South Africa’s national HIV prevention initiative for young people ages 12-24. With a network of programs that extended to 900 sites across nine provinces, the nonprofit melded behavior change with clinical services through youth-friendly programs and, in less than a decade, had become an essential part of South African life. Read more
An Action Plan for a Growing Rural Hospice to Maintain Quality
Living Room International (LRI) provides dignity and quality of life to people in Kenya affected by HIV/AIDS and other life-threatening illnesses through home-based and inpatient hospice care and education. Read more
Feasibility of a Plan for Chronic Patients to Generate Income
Through an innovative collaboration, the Sustainable Household Income Project (SHIP) drew on Mbarara University of Science and Technology, Massachusetts General Hospital, and Harvard University, among others, to provide support to low-income patients affiliated with the Family Treatment Fund and Immune Suppression Syndrome Clinic in the rural environs of Mbarara, Uganda. SHIP aimed to help patients adhere to treatment and stay healthy by providing practical training in small business entrepreneurship and startup materials to launch household businesses. Read more
Potential Profitability of a Townships Micro-Clinic Franchise
Pharmaceutical and medical supply claims were the major focus of one of the biggest divisions of RTT, South Africa’s largest privately owned distribution company (in 2013 it was acquired by Imperial Health and renamed). Unjani was a social project run by RTT's leadership that aimed to contribute to the welfare of its 7000+ employees, their families, along with the broader community, through the creation of sustainable local businesses designed to provide basic, affordable health services near RTT warehouses. Read more
Tapping into Community Nursing to Improve Hospital Outcomes
LifeSpring Hospitals is a chain of maternity facilities providing high-quality affordable health care to low-income women in India. Read more
Defining the Market for a Rugged Diagnostic Device
US based Daktari Diagnostics commercializes low-cost, rugged health diagnostics. Read more
Aligning Marketing, Pricing, and Delivery with Patient Preferences
Carolina for Kibera, or CFK, fights abject poverty and promotes youth leadership and ethnic and gender cooperation in East Africa’s largest slum. In partnership with the US Centers for Disease Control, CFK ran the Tabitha Clinic, a three-story facility in the heart of Kibera. Read more
Selecting Low-Cost Diagnostics for Hundreds of Rural Clinics
Hyderabad-based CARE Rural Health Mission (CRHM), a non-profit organization supported by and housed within the CARE Hospitals system, aimed to provide affordable, accessible primary care in rural areas. Read more
Hospital Market Positioning Amid a Changing Health Sector
CARE Hospitals evolved from a cardiac hospital to a chain of multi-specialty tertiary and quaternary care hospitals with 1600 beds in five Indian states that aimed to provide affordable, high quality services to a broad a segment of the country’s population, including lower-income segments. Read more