Healthcare and Economic Growth in Africa: Innovative Financing

This is the second article in a planned series which will review the findings of the recently-released Healthcare and Economic Growth in Africa report. The report provides an overview of the state of African health and health systems, with the aim of guiding investments and shaping narratives around health in Africa. This article offers insight into the status of, and … Read More

Innovative Development Impact Bond Partnership for Increasing Breast Cancer Care Survival in India

Opportunity for diagnostic & device companies and other parties to join a life-saving initiative By Pam Bolton, Head of Partnerships, Tech Care for All Leading impact investor KOIS is seeking companies, foundations, impact investors, and bi- and multi-lateral agencies to join a bold new initiative to transform India’s cancer care through innovative finance. This effort exemplifies the range of novel … Read More

Event: Opportunities in Innovative Health Financing with the Global Fund

The Global Fund Private Sector Delegation (PSD) will host an event on the sidelines of the 38th Global Fund Board meeting to discuss opportunities in innovative health financing. A significant increase in resources and funding is essential if we are to reach sustainable development goal (SDG) targets including eliminating HIV, TB and Malaria by 2030. Pressures on donor financing combined … Read More

Business Must Continue to Lead to “End Malaria for Good”

End Malaria for Good. That’s the theme of this year’s World Malaria Day – a fitting, aspirational and accomplishable goal as we kick off Agenda 2030 in this transitional year of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). Across the global malaria community, we should feel gratified with our tremendous success, having saved over 6.2 million lives that would have been lost … Read More

The Global Fund’s 5th Replenishment: What, Why and How?

What is the Global Fund Replenishment? The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria provides grants to low and middle-income countries to fund prevention, treatment and care programs for people with HIV/AIDS, TB and malaria. In 2003, the Global Fund adopted a three-year replenishment model to assure countries of sustained and predictable financial support for their programs.  The Fourth … Read More

Three ways business can help achieve the SDGs

Authors: Nancy Wildfeir-Field, John Simon and Suprotik Basu. This article originally appeared on the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda blog on February 11, 2016. The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have mobilized the most successful anti-poverty movement in history. Yet in 2016, we still find ourselves in a situation where millions of families have been left behind. With the launch of … Read More

Health Credit Exchange: Partnering to Drive Better Health Outcomes

January 14, 2016 10:00 – 11:30 AM EST GBCHealth, in partnership with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation’s Corporate Citizenship Center, hosted a webinar with a select group of corporate partners to introduce the Health Credit Exchange (HCX) – a new GBCHealth innovative financing initiative. The webinar provided insights into the structure and function of the initiative and highlighted opportunities for companies to expand their social investment … Read More

Private Sector Delegation Provides Strategic Input to the 34th Global Fund Board Meeting

The 34th Meeting of the Board of the Global Fund for AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria From November 14th through 17th the Private Sector Delegation convened in Geneva, Switzerland for the Global Fund for AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria’s 34th Board Meeting.  As 2017 marks the beginning of the next six-year strategic planning period for the Global Fund, the meeting and its … Read More

UNITLIFE: A Briefing for Private Sector Partners

Tuesday, September 29th, 2015 Rockefeller Foundation, 420 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY UNITLIFE – a new financing mechanism to fund nutrition programs in sub-Saharan Africa – was launched at the United Nations on September 28th. Taking a novel approach to financing, UNITLIFE uses a micro levy on the extractive industry, to create cost-effective, scalable and sustainable solutions for maternal and … Read More

Perspectives On A New Strategy to Shape Markets for Health Products

The Private Sector constituency has been an active participant in the Global Fund’s recent initiative to revise its Market Shaping Strategy (MSS). The Global Fund is one of the largest procurers of health-related commodities in the world, and as a result of this purchasing power inevitably shapes the markets in which it operates. Recognition of this market shaping power led … Read More