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Lauren Peterson
Posted by Lauren Peterson
May 19 2013

New research on Microinsurance products: implementation, client value, business case, & social protection

A presentation in Washington, D.C. and online this Thursday

MiN webinar

Health microinsurance – health insurance products and services for low-income households in developing countries – is gaining attention as a potential solution to increase access to health care by low-income populations while reducing their exposure to financial risk. Recent research brings into focus a number of specific issues related to the implementation, client value and business case of micro health insurance, as well as its potential role in social protection.

Eleni Vlachos
Posted by Eleni Vlachos
May 18 2013

Do you want to grow your innovation?

Opportunity to apply for IPIHD Network

Innovators and investors at IPIHD Forum

We have been very fortunate this past year. Since launching at the World Economic Forum, the International Partnership for Innovative Healthcare Delivery (IPIHD), together with our supporters and innovators, has moved from design to delivery.

Robert Hecht
Posted by Robert Hecht
May 13 2013

A Strategy for Family Planning Services in Low/Middle Income Countries

How the Janani Project has improved Bihar's Family Planning Program

A Family in Rural Bihar, Courtesy of World Health Partners

In the wake of the Indian government’s high-level commitments at last year’s “FP2020” summit, I traveled to India to see how the country’s family planning program is advancing. I am part of a team studying efforts to improve monitoring and accountability in family planning in a number of countries, including India.

Rosa Kang
Posted by Rosa Kang
May 10 2013

Weekly News Roundup

What's Happening in Private Sector Health Innovations in Developing Countries?

Program News

Did you know several CHMI-profiled programs have been announced as finalists for The Next Century Innovators Award?

Shruti Veenam
Posted by Shruti Veenam
May 3 2013

Innovative Health Sector Enterprises @ Sankalp 2013

Editor’s note: Shruti Veenam represents Swasti, a new organization joining the CHMI network to connect program managers, investors, donors, researchers, policy makers, and others in India’s fast-growing healthcare market, with an eye on scaling up promising initiatives. CHMI will welcome several other new organizations to its network next month.

Rose Reis
Posted by Rose Reis
Apr 29 2013

Mobile hospitals in Brazil carry flexible, specialized care on land, water, or air

Contracting with local governments and companies to serve overcrowded hospitals and poorly resourced areas

The Projeto CIES Health "Wagon"

While 70 percent of Brazilians seek health care in the public sector, those who can afford it opt for private services. And who can blame them?

Aarthi Rao
Posted by Aarthi Rao
Apr 29 2013

Is Social Enterprise 'Social' Enough?

Reflections from the Sankalp Unconvention Summit in Mumbai

Antony Bugg-Levine during plenary: Innovation, Impact and Transformation

This post was first published on NextBillion.

This year’s Sankalp Forum, coyly named the “Unconvention Summit” after its link up with Villgro, had a heavy focus on impact investing.

Rosa Kang
Posted by Rosa Kang
Apr 26 2013

Weekly News Roundup

What's Happening in Private Sector Health Innovations in Developing Countries?

Program News

Operation ASHA’s successful technology replication in Uganda was featured in the Huffington Post. Its eCompliance technology works by using the patient's fingerprints to record daily visits each time the patient comes to the clinic for a dose of medication. Operation ASHA has successfully treated more than 30,150 TB patients so far.

Christina Synowiec
Posted by Christina Synowiec
Apr 23 2013

Database at a Glance: Malaria

Malaria incidence and innovative programs profiled by CHMI

*Editor's Note: This edition of our regular database at a glance series excerpted an upcoming brief produced by Onil Bhattacharyya of the T-HOPE Group at the University of Toronto.

Christina Synowiec
Posted by Christina Synowiec
Apr 22 2013

Heartfile moves Pakistan toward universal health coverage

Aspen Institute presentation with CHMI innovator Heartfile Health Financing

Meet Majid. This 15 year old boy is the primary earner for his family in Pakistan. Majid was hit by a tractor, leaving him out of a job, with no money for an operation, and a starving family. More than 120 million people in Pakistan pay out of pocket for needed health care services. As a result, many are at risk of catastrophic expenditures that lead to a downward spiral of poverty or the possibility of becoming indebted for life.

One organization is trying to change this picture, by actively seeking patients who are at risk.

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