Medina SunTech

SOLAR LAMP CHALLENGE; South Sudan

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

Medina SunTech is a social venture with a mission of improving and dispatching clean, reliable, and affordable solar energy systems to off-grid communities of South Sudan.

Medina SunTech offers dependable, cost-effective, and certified SunKing solar energy solutions to the people of Central Equatoria State in South Sudan, where electricity is not available. The products come with warranties and quality assurances to ensure durability and high performance.

They aim to alleviate energy poverty and enhance the quality of life for residents. Medina SunTech is fervently dedicated to overcoming barriers, including the lack of high-quality solar systems, financial constraints, and awareness deficits, that hinder the broad adoption of renewable energy technologies in South Sudan.

Medina SunTech was founded in 2024 by an enthusiastic energy professional with extensive experience of nearly half a decade in the energy sector of South Sudan. Medina SunTech is led by Mr. Talib PB Latio who is the Founder and Managing Director. Talib's speciality is in energy engineering with a major focus on renewable energy technologies.

PILOT AND SCALING GOALS

• Directly reach 500 unique customers within three months.

• Using 5 high-performing distribution agents, distribute 500 solar lamps in three months.

• Fundraise an additional $10,000 USD from new donors or investors within three months.

FOUNDING TEAM

Talib Paskwali Beshir Latio - Managing Director and Founder

Better Women Health

MATERNAL HEALTH CHALLENGE; SOUTH SUDAN

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

Better Women Health (BWH) is distributing Misoprostol to reduce the high prevalence of PPH mortality, among millions of women giving birth at home, driven by remote settings of war torn South Sudan.

BWH’s model is based on “a low-cost-effective proven lifesaving solution. Together with the trained Community Health workers (CHWs), TBAs and Health workers; BWH registers pregnant women from 32 weeks of gestation to enable access to misoprostol at health facility delivery or home birth with an upskilled birth attendant. With support from BWH and Health workers, the CHWs & TBAs visit mothers at home and discuss birth preparedness plan, informing mothers of the benefits of taking misoprostol immediately after delivery to prevent excessive bleeding. BWH model is a dire demand to reduce preventable deaths resulting from PPH and saving more lives and easy to administer even by the mothers themselves.

BWH was started ten months ago (April 2021) by Judith Draleru Maturu of BHECO and Kiden Rose Buli a friend who questioned the quick solution to stop women dying from PPH. Seeing it through the tears in her eyes, made it especially personal and women for women struggle. Rose now serves as the BWH project coordinator.

PILOT AND SCALING GOALS

• Directly reach 200 women within three months

• Distribute 800 Misoprostol pills in three months

• Fundraise an additional $75,000 from new donors within three months

FOUNDING TEAM

Judith Draleru Maturu - Project Director

Rose Kiden Buli - Project Coordinator

Fistula Awareness and Treatment Initiative

PATIENT IDENTIFICATION CHALLENGE; SOUTH SUDAN

PROVEN INTERVENTION TO BE DISTRIBUTED

Obstetric fistula screenings.

Learn more about the Patient Identification Challenge and why identifying individuals in need of medical treatment and finding ways to make that treatment accessible reduces poverty.  

 

DISTRIBUTION MODEL INNOVATION

Fistula Awareness and Treatment Initiative aims to identify and to help treat obstetric fistula patients from remote areas of South Sudan.

In Western Equatoria State of South Sudan, the majority of women deliver at home without a skilled birth attendant and when complications arise, as they do in approximately 30% of all births, there is no one available to treat the woman, leading to disabling injuries like fistula. The project will use women peer educators, community health workers and traditional healers to increase community awareness about the issue, with a concomitant increase in the number of patients identified and be referred to the nearby hospitals to receive the required treatment for obstetric fistula. The project will cover transportation costs for fistula patients to get treatment and will further establish fistula survivors’ solidarity groups for awareness raising and ongoing identification of other patients.

Fistula Awareness and Treatment Initiative was started December 2021 by Fidele Tuyishimire and Pio William Jey Mayot. Fidele serves as the Director of the initiative while Pio William serves as its Partnership Officer.

 

PILOT AND SCALING GOALS

• Identify and help treating 150 fistula patients

• Empower 60 community health workers and 40 traditional healers to assist in identifying and help treating fistula patients

• Conduct 40 community awareness campaigns on obstetric fistula

 

FOUNDING TEAM

Fidele Tuyishimire- Director

Pio William Jey Mayot - Partnership Officer

African 1000 Days Action

MATERNAL HEALTH CHALLENGE; SOUTH SUDAN

PROVEN INTERVENTION TO BE DISTRIBUTED

Misoprostol, a $3 drug that could prevent 100,000 maternal deaths from postpartum hemorrhaging.

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

African 1000 Days Action brings affordable, quality maternal healthcare to poor women with limited access to primary healthcare services. The organization trains facility-based healthcare providers and traditional birth attendants to administer Misoprostol as a postpartum hemorrhage prevention method. The organization will ensure an effective supply chain in the Upper Nile State region of South Sudan to allow the drug to be available at an affordable price and will establish a modern pharmacy to distribute Misoprostol. To begin, African 1000 Days Action will obtain a written official approval from the South Sudanese Ministry of Health for the implementation of the project. The team notes that this is a crucial step in a post-conflict country where many regions are still militarized and the local project staff may need to frequently demonstrate that the project is approved by authorities. Then African 1000 Days Action will conduct meetings with important stakeholders including the Chinese Petroleum Extraction Company airline which is the only transportation available to reach their pilot location from Juba, South Sudan's capital city. 

The organization will focus on identifying and training traditional birth attendants. In South Sudan, around 80% of mothers deliver at home assisted by traditional birth attendants. While public healthcare institutions suffer from a lack of equipment and human resources, private pharmacists, drug shop owners, and private clinical officers have built expansive networks within the community and are playing a vital role in providing health services to remote communities. Private healthcare providers and traditional birth attendants will be chosen from this group to  train on the correct use of misoprostol. 

 

PILOT AND SCALING GOALS

• Train 500 healthcare providers and 1,000 Traditional Birth Attendants (TBAs) to administer misoprostol during the pilot 
• Grow to 5,000 healthcare providers and over 10,000 TBA trainees by the end of 2019 
• Ensure misoprostol supply chain to mothers during childbirth in rural areas

 

FOUNDING TEAM

Jean Luc Ugirashebuja - Executive Director