Mzima Health Access

VMMC CHALLENGE; UGANDA

PROVEN INTERVENTION TO BE DISTRIBUTED

Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision (VMMC).

Learn more about the VMMC Challenge and why scaling up voluntary medical male circumcision can substantially reduce the rate of HIV acquisition for men, and also reduce the risk of transmission of high-risk human papillomavirus (HPV) to the men’s partners.

DISTRIBUTION MODEL INNOVATION

Mzima Health Access serves to improve quality of life of community individuals through access to voluntary medical male circumcision to reduce the risk of HIV acquisition.

Mzima Health Access uses a Village Health Team (VHT) model to create demand for VMMC services at the communities of Mubende District in Uganda. The project leverages a community structure obligated to create demand for health services at community level through end mile delivery and distribution of health products and services.

PILOT AND SCALING GOALS

• Increase access to VMMC services to 200 Men during the three month pilot

• Mobilize 15 Village Health Teams and 9 safe male circumcision champions (‘satisfied users’) to lead identification and promotion of VMMC

• Fundraise an additional $11,000 USD from new donors or investors during the three month pilot

• Reach 10,000 men by the end of year 1

FOUNDING TEAM

Catherine Amulen - Team Leader

Joan Nakirya - Project Coordinator

Juma Omala - Resource Mobilization Lead

Saving Mothers Saving Lives - Zambia

PMTCT CHALLENGE; ZAMBIA

PROVEN INTERVENTION TO BE DISTRIBUTED

Retention in care and adherence to anti-retroviral treatment for people living with HIV. 

Learn more about the PMTCT Challenge and how increasing completion of antiretroviral therapy (ART) to prevent mother to child transmission (PMTCT) of HIV can decrease HIV rates and improve lives.

DISTRIBUTION MODEL INNOVATION

Saving Mothers, Saving Lives increases adherence to antiretroviral therapy (ART) and retention in HIV care for at least HIV positive pregnant and breastfeeding women.

Launching in Katete District the Mothers for Life-eMTCT project interventions will build on comprehensive integrated HIV and ANC services at the health facility level, adding evidence-based strategies in the community and at individual level to support adherence to and retention in ART. These include: (1) mobile health (mHealth) short message service (SMS) with two-way communication to convey health messages and help retain HIV positive pregnant women in existing ART services, and (2) Community-Based Volunteers who conduct home visits to support eMTCT services.

PILOT AND SCALING GOALS

• Reach 300 HIV+ expectant mothers during the pilot phase

• Raise an additional $7,000 during the pilot phase

• Reach 750 HIV+ expectant mothers by the end of year 1

FOUNDING TEAM

Davies Bwalya - Director

Constance Himakuma - Clinical Lead Mentor

Innocent Tembo - Strategic/Planning (M&E)

Koi Koi Stories Uganda Limited

MATERNAL HEALTH CHALLENGE; UGANDA

PROVEN INTERVENTION TO BE DISTRIBUTED

Misoprostol.

Learn more about the Maternal Health Challenge and how the distribution of Misoprostol, a $3 drug that can prevent maternal deaths from postpartum hemorrhage, could save thousands of lives.

DISTRIBUTION MODEL INNOVATION

Through empowering traditional birth attendants, Koi Koi Stories increases community access to the lifesaving misoprostol drug to reduce post partum haemorrhage, the leading cause of maternal mortality among the rural underserved women of Moroto District, Uganda.

Moroto District has a very high maternal mortality rate at 420 deaths per 100,000 live births. Due to long distances to health facilities, most women die from postpartum hemorrhage in the communities as they try to deliver under the care of unskilled traditional birth attendants. Our model seeks to train traditional birth attendants on the appropriate use of misoprostol (an approved low cost uterotonic drug), and create linkages for them with the health facilities to allow them access the drug supplies and appropriately and timely administer these drugs at community level to save the lives of mothers and their newborns.

PILOT AND SCALING GOALS

• Reach 1,680 women during the pilot phase

• Raise $10,000 of funding during the pilot phase

• Train 5,000 Traditional Birth Attendants by the end of year 2

• Reach 50,000 women by the end of year 2

FOUNDING TEAM

Bryan Innocent Tumusiime - Team Lead

Mary Ajwang - Project Coordinator

Precious Mutoru Kerunga - M&E Officer

Dinnah Odonya - Field Trainer

Abigail Antwi - Founding Member

Resonance Lab

SOLAR LAMP CHALLENGE; INDIA

PROVEN INTERVENTION TO BE DISTRIBUTED

Solar Lamps.

Learn more about the Solar Lamp Challenge and how these lamps create enormous benefits for developing world families.

DISTRIBUTION MODEL INNOVATION

Resonance Lab provides clean, affordable and reliable energy access to people in rural India. The distribution plan levergares the reach of local NGO in Jharkhand, the most power-deprived state in India. Resonance Lab will offer off-the-shelf products during the pilot phase to assess product-market fit.

Nitin Malik and Mohit Saini aim to solve social problems in India. They have 13 years of experience across eight countries in consulting and work with low-income communities.

PILOT AND SCALING GOALS

• 50 solar products distributed over the first three months

• 550 customers reached by end of Y1

• 3,000 customers reached by end of Y2

FOUNDING TEAM

Nitin Malik - Co-founder

Mohit Saini - Co-founder