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New Innovation Fund grant awarded
19th March 2015The Coalition’s Innovation Fund has just awarded a grant to member association Abt Associates to test and revise Total Market Approaches indicators and develop a tool for assessing government capacity. Total Market Approaches...
Maternal health drugs largely inaccessible to many women
19th March 2015Each year, more than 180,000 women die during pregnancy or childbirth from hemorrhage or pre-eclampsia/eclampsia, write the Population Council’s Saumya RamaRao and Katharine McCarthy in a recent blog post. Many of these deaths can...
Category: Maternal Health Supplies Caucus
Access depends on functional SCM systems
19th March 2015Simply making commodities available is not enough to improve the quality of life for most communities, argues Dr. Lloyd Matowe, the executive director of Pharmaceutical Systems Africa, an international consultancy supporting...
Category: Systems Strengthening Working Group
Who's Holding up Our Pillars: Carolyn Hart
17th March 2015Carolyn Hart’s infectious passion and dedication have created lasting change in the field of reproductive health commodities. She is credited with having coined the phrase “contraceptive security”—modeled on the notion of “food security”—as she worked to gain attention and resources for reproductive health commodities.
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Innovation Fund assesses Kenyan market for new FDA-approved LNG-IUS
13th March 2015An Innovation Fund grant has helped launch a partnership designed to broaden options for long-acting reversible contraception in the Kenyan market. With the grant’s support, three Coalition members -- FHI360, Medicines360, and Mar...
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