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Highlights: 2012

CHMI's Highlights: 2012 report features programs working to make quality healthcare delivered by private organizations affordable and accessible to the world's poor.

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Posted by Rose Reis

Jun 17 2013

Swasth Health Centers offer high-quality, low-cost primary health services

A visit to this 12-clinic chain that serves people in working class Bombay communities

Sundeep Kapila and Ankur Pegu in front of their growing health chain

Doctor Galli (Galli means “lane” in Hindi) in Goregaon East, Mumbai, was buzzing on a June morning, with people running errands in a sunny break between early monsoons. Sandwiched between tiny wedding photography studios was a 135-square-foot outlet of Swasth Health Center, Sundeep Kapila and Ankur Pegu’s growing primary health chain.

Families sat in plastic chairs waiting to see the doctor, served by nurses clad in neat white uniforms.

Posted by Gina Uppal

Jun 13 2013

Social franchising has transformed access to family planning in Pakistan

Explore the latest addition to the Global Health Innovation Insight Series from Stanford!

A mother and child during a visit to a Greenstar clinic in Pakistan

Stanford’s Center for Innovation in Global Health recently released another case study in their Global Health Innovation Insight Series. The case examines PSI’s partnership with Greenstar to address the unmet demand for family planning in Pakistan.

Posted by Gina Uppal

Jun 13 2013

Weekly News Roundup

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

Program News

Changamka Microhealth, Access Afya and Mera Doctor are finalists Ashoka Changemakers’s “Transforming Health Systems: Gamechanging Business Models” competition. Forbes featured these CHMI-profiled programs in a showcase of six business models that are transforming health systems around the world.

program highlights

Name	Country
Unjani Clinic	South Africa
Mother-Baby Pack	Cameroon, Kenya, Lesotho, Zambia
Sustainable Drug Seller Initiatives (SDSI)	Tanzania, Uganda
New Start South Africa	South Africa
Nakimpilo-Care for Life	South Africa
Healthy Entrepreneurs	Bangladesh, Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Haiti, Rwanda
Freedom HIV/AIDS	Botswana, India, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, Uganda
Penda Health	Kenya
Health Management and Research Institute (HMRI)	India
Viva Sehat (formerly Razi Clinics)	India

Name	Country
New Start South Africa	South Africa
Health Management and Research Institute (HMRI)	India
Rural Health Care Foundation	India
LifeNet International	Burundi
New Start Zimbabwe	Zimbabwe
New Start Zambia	Zambia
BlueStar Vietnam	Vietnam
Tinh chi em (Sisterhood)	Vietnam
ProFam, Uganda	Uganda
Living Goods	Uganda

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The Center for Health Market Innovations (CHMI) promotes programs, policies and practices that make quality health care delivered by private organizations affordable and accessible to the world’s poor. Operated through a global network of partners since 2010, CHMI is managed by the Results for Development Institute. CHMI is funded by the Department for International Development (DFID), the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and the Rockefeller Foundation.

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