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Maria Belenky
Posted by Maria Belenky
May 21 2012

Smiling Sun Franchise gives patients a lot to smile about

A visit to Bangladesh’s largest private healthcare network

Smiling Sun Clinic

The red and yellow color scheme is evident everywhere you look. Brightly painted lines run along every room and hallway, and a smiling sun adorns window curtains and posters displaying health information. We are at the Surjer Hashi Clinic outside of Dhaka, one of the 325 clinic networked by the Smiling Sun Franchise Program (SSFP), a USAID-funded initiative that has grown to become the largest private healthcare network in the country.

Alex Robinson
Posted by Alex Robinson
May 18 2012

Weekly News Roundup

News, Events and Observations about Health Markets in the Developing World

CHMI Network News

Saude Crianca was featured in new documentary about social entrepreneurs called "Quem se importa" or "Who Cares". Click here to check it out!

This week, Forbes published a list of the 10 Startups Changing the World And What We Can Learn From Them.

CHMI Team
Posted by CHMI Team
May 16 2012

AfDB e-Health awards for programs improving access, utilization, and efficiency in Africa

Deadline to apply approaching!

A phone used by Jacaranda Health staff

The use of information and communication technology in the health sector, commonly known as eHealth, is an appealing solution to addressing the many challenges facing health systems in Africa. However, interventions in e- and m-Health on the continent have remained small in scale.

Rose Reis
Posted by Rose Reis
May 15 2012

Healthy Firms

What’s hindering the growth of health businesses in Ghana and Kenya?

A pharmacy that will a point referral for m-Afya Kiosks

In a series of new studies for the World Bank’s Health in Africa series, the authors look at public-private sector collaboration from the perspective of health firms.

Alex Robinson
Posted by Alex Robinson
May 11 2012

Weekly News Roundup

News, Events and Observations about Health Markets in the Developing World

Program News

In April, CHMI’s partner organization in Indonesia, Mercy Corps, held a CHMI roundtable in Jakarta that focused on the use of technology in healthcare in Indonesia. For the event, Mercy Corps produced a video about the use of mHealth in Indonesia. Check it out here!

General News

The African Development Bank (AfDB) is launching a competition for innovation and ICT solutions for the health sector in Africa.

Diana Fernholz
Posted by Diana Fernholz
May 10 2012

Case Study Highlights: The Generics Pharmacy

Oscar Picazo of Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS) spoke with us about the franchise

To learn more about The Generics Pharmacy (TGP) case study, I spoke with author Oscar Picazo, of CHMI's hub in the Philippines, about the various challenges and innovations of the program.

What, in your opinion, makes this an innovative program?

TGP is the first hugely successful for-profit pharmacy distribution system organized along the lines of a franchise network that caters to the poor. The combination of the for

Mercyline Adhiambo
Posted by Mercyline Adhiambo
May 9 2012

Pomp and colour characterizes the Health Market Innovations Awards

Health Innovations Awards

About 200 guests from Uganda, Kenya, Rwanda and Tanzania converged at the Sheraton Hotel in Kampala, Uganda to celebrate the inaugural Health Market Innovations Awards (HIA) in the East African Region. The event, which took place May 2, 2012, saw the Mothers 2 Mothers program emerge as the most outstanding health market innovation.

Alex Robinson
Posted by Alex Robinson
May 4 2012

Weekly News Roundup

News, Events and Observations about Health Markets in the Developing World

Program News

CHMI was featured this week in a blog post on Fast Company’s Co.Exist blog titled Creating a Moneyball Approach to Impact Investing. The post discusses the role that CHMI and information resources can play in the impact investment process and asks whether the sector is prepared to “admit 50% or more of their portfolios are likely to fail” (a high percentage that is also realistic, given the high-risk nature of investing in young ventures).

Diana Fernholz
Posted by Diana Fernholz
May 3 2012

Case Study Highlights: Vulnerable Populations

Seven CHMI case studies look to funding and implementation to assist at risk populations

Consider the some of the most vulnerable populations of the world: children, refugees, HIV/AIDS patients and those residing in rural areas. Their needs and lives vary significantly from other groups, resulting in a greater need for access to the health market.

Trevor Lewis
Posted by Trevor Lewis
Apr 30 2012

New Study Identifies How ICT Is Being Used to Solve Health Challenges Globally

Innovators around the world are using information technology to extend healthcare access to the rural poor, manage data, and improve doctor and patient communication, authors report in the WHO Bulletin

Health workers with their phones - courtesy of Steve Ollis, D-tree International

Dr. Angelo de Guzman is responsible for the health of 28,000 people on the Dinagat Islands in the Philippines, 700 miles southeast of Manila, the capital. This is not a small feat given the size and isolation of this population, and unfortunately Dr. Guzman’s case is not unique: doctors all over the developing world are trying to care for large rural populations without access to proper medical resources nor the specialized knowledge that they might need to cover all situations.

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