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Blogs tagged: Brazil

Virginia Resende
Posted by Virginia Resende
Sep 26 2011

Health Market Highlights: Brazil

Innovation through the SUS, public-private partnerships

Brazil map

For the past year, CHMI’s network of in-country partners has been actively identifying and profiling health market innovations globally. But what have we learned? Over the coming months, we will be featuring periodic highlights from CHMI’s country landscaping. Here, Virginia Resende from ACCESS Health International, CHMI’s partner in Brazil, discusses the challenges and promising innovations emerging from Latina America’s largest country.

As one of the emerging global economic powers, Brazil has drawn increasing attention from investors and political actors alike.

Virginia Resende
Posted by Virginia Resende
Jun 16 2011

What innovators in Brazil can learn from the flexible, dynamic Indian subcontinent

Meeting hosted by Robert Parkinson from ANDE

About a week ago, a diverse group of partners gathered to exchange critical views and challenge old strategies regarding Brazilian healthcare.

Cohosted by my organization, ACCESS Health International, with Artemisia Social Businesses, AVINA Foundation and the Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs, the workshop included representatives from the healthcare field, as well as entrepreneurs, academia, investors and the government.

Christopher Purdy
Posted by Christopher Purdy
May 12 2011

Social marketing - the next chapter

The enterprise model at DKT country offices

Fiesta condom ad in Turkey

More than 100 million women wish to avoid pregnancy but are not using contraception, and an additional 75 million rely on less effective traditional methods. Ensuring women and families have access to a full range of methods is part of ensuring contraceptive security. But what if couples aren't aware of available contraceptive methods, or fear side effects?

Enter DKT International.

Virginia Resende
Posted by Virginia Resende
Apr 18 2011

Creating healthy smiles in Brazil to improve social inclusion

A movement to promote access to low cost dental services

Dentist Dr. Fabio Biancos

While touring in public schools after the launch of his first book in 2005, "Um Sorriso Feliz para o seu Filho" (A Happy Smile for your Child), Dr. Fabio Bibancos realized that lower income families had extremely limited access to dental services. By the time children were taken to public dental clinics, they had already lost many teeth and had very poor oral health. Many had no access to reconstructive treatment.

Dr. Bibancos also saw the of poor dental hygiene on teenagers’ livelihoods and productivity.

Virginia Resende
Posted by Virginia Resende
Feb 25 2011

Family rehab in Brazil: A holistic approach to fighting health spending-induced poverty

Forging a new path for struggling families

Saúde Criança on Center for Health Market Innovations

Operating out of an abandoned horse stable in Rio de Janeiro’s Parque Lage, a brave, forward-thinking program is working to alleviate poverty in families seeking care for their children—and preventing re-admission when there is no money for medicine.

Now operating across 28 hospitals, Saúde Criança (Child Health) has grown to inspiring heights since its founding in 1992.

In this interview, ACCESS Health International’s Virginia Resende asks the program’s founder, Dr.

Virginia Resende
Posted by Virginia Resende
Jan 27 2011

Designing a low-cost, high performance primary health care chain in Brazil

CVS's Minute Clinics inspire a smartly designed enterprise aiming to lower financial and time costs to seeking health care for low income Brazilians

Advertisement for Saúde 10 Center for Health Market Innovations

In a two-part series, Virginia Resende, ACCESS Health International’s lead for CHMI in Brazil, interviews an entrepreneur opening a smartly designed low-cost chain of clinics. In part 1, she asks Ingrid Lins e Silva, Founder of Saúde 10, how the government can best aid similar social enterprises via financing and regulations.

The primary health care market is estimated to generate R$16 billion ($9.5 billion) every year in Brazil.

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