Center for Health Market Innovations (CHMI)

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Embrace

last updated Feb 6, 2012

Overview

Legal Status: 
Private (not-for-profit)
Year Launched: 
2009
Stage: 
Pilot/startup stage
Income Level of Target Population: 
Bottom 20%, 20-60% (lower to lower-middle)

Funding

Additional Source(s) of Funding: 
Donor
Summary: 

Embrace is a sustainable social enterprise that is addressing the issue of global infant mortality through an innovative infant warmer that costs less than 1% of a traditional incubator.

Key program components: 

The design looks like a miniature sleeping bag but in reality saves lives of vulnerable infants. It is a new, low cost solution to help keep low birth weight babies' body temperature warm so they can survive and thrive in developing countries. The price of the bag is around $150, less than one percent of the price of a traditional incubator, which can reach $20,000.

It can be used in clinics or in community-based settings. Embrace's customers will be private clinics, NGOs and governments, who are also our distribution and education partners. Embrace plans to pilot the product and business concepts in India, and then roll out in the rest of the developing world.

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