December 2017

Strengthening Primary Health Care through Community Health Workers: Closing the $2 Billion Gap

CII, in partnership with The Financing Alliance for Health, launched a new report titled Strengthening Primary Health Care through Community Health Workers: Closing the $2 Billion Gap. This report strengthens the knowledge base around the need for community health financing and draws lessons from two unique examples – Zambia and Ethiopia – on financing pathways to secure additional resources. It is designed to help governments, donors, and other partners in the global health community develop and strengthen country-level financing pathways for community health. In January, the report will be launched publicly at events in New York and Washington, D.C.

SL@B Grantee Bempu Featured as One of TIME's 25 Best Inventions of 2017

We’re excited to share that one of our Saving Lives at Birth (SL@B) innovators was featured in TIME as one of the Best 25 Inventions of 2017! The BEMPU Hypothermia Alert Device is a newborn temperature-monitoring wristband that intuitively alerts caregivers if their newborn is losing too much heat, enabling intervention well before complications or death can occur. With support from SL@B, the device has helped an estimated 10,000 newborns. Bempu was recently nominated for a $2 million SL@B award to scale distribution of the device throughout India and abroad to achieve greater impact on saving newborn lives.

SL@B Grantee Rice 360 Makes Final Pitch for $100M Grant

One of our global health innovators, Rice 360° Institute for Global Health, is one of four finalists in the MacArthur Foundation’s 100&Change competition for their NEST360° program, which has the potential to halve the 1.1 million annual newborn deaths in Africa over the next 10 years with its package of lifesaving technologies. Through Saving Lives at Birth, USAID has supported the development of several NEST360° innovations for newborn care, positioning them for further funding and support as they develop and scale. Watch their final pitch. The competition announces the $100M winner on December 20th.

Eight Ways USAID Drives Investments in Global Health

Check out this Medium blog from USAID that features nontraditional financing tools from CII’s Investing for Impact report, including the newly announced Development Impact Bond and seed funding approaches like the Saving Lives at Birth Grand Challenge model. The blog also displays an interactive map to highlight where these tools are applied on a global level.