Microfinance and Healthcare

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Permalink Reply by Chris Becker on July 19, 2009 at 12:57am

Check out this video... http://www.pbs.org/now/shows/321/video.html

It tells the story of how micro franchising is being applied to medical start ups in Africa.

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Permalink Reply by Andrea Hobby on July 19, 2009 at 2:09am

Thanks! Now, I just need to figure out how I can work in the field or at least volunteer.

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Permalink Reply by chris macrae on July 20, 2009 at 8:53am

healthcare is usually so critical to the sustainability of a country's most trusted microcredit that they end up investing in the community empowering insurance infrastructure not just individual starts ups

so for example jamii bora in kenya found it wasnt getting high repayment rates because someone in the borrowers extended family would fall ill and the loan get spent on that; so they had to provide all members with health insurance - after expensive quotes from insurance companies, jamii bora calculated what its whole membership could pay annually, approached missionary hospitals and bought a members wide health insurance

in bangladesh, networks like brac design whole industry sectors from the bottom up - so they have village pharmacists who are microfranchisees; for grameen's approach start at http://www.grameenkalyan.org - this began in the early 1990s- currently dr yunus' number 1 personal challenge is to bring in partners from around teh world so that a free medical university can grow in dhaka where students get training free if they go back to the villages for their first years of qualified service; he is also helped by the greenchildren pop group who have fundraised for 2 eye clinic social business

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Permalink Reply by Andrea Hobby on July 20, 2009 at 12:00pm

Thanks. Are there any organizations that allow people to go on microfinance trips to find people to work with? I would love to come along on one.

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Permalink Reply by Natasha Bhan on September 19, 2009 at 6:42am

Hi Andrea,

Microinsurance Academy in New Delhi, India is one such organisation that ventures into the field of health insurance through microfinance. Check out their website http://www.microinsuranceacademy.org/ adn get in touch with them to see how you can get involved in such a programme. They do have several volunteers/interns from abroad.

Hope you find this useful

Best,
Natasha

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Permalink Reply by Rajesh on September 30, 2009 at 2:22am

Definitely, My organisation is having an integrated approach towards Healthcare and Microfinance. I belongs to Esaf Microfinance, India.

Rajesh

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Permalink Reply by chris macrae on October 3, 2009 at 5:25pm

At Clinton GI, Yunus announced Grameen Nurse Training Centre in Dhaka with funds from Nike Foundation and Novo , and training support from Glasgow Caledonian, one of the Universities partnering Yunus

http://www.centredaily.com/news/education/story/1523618.html
This new vision of health for girls disrupts the current health care marketplace in Bangladesh with a new approach to health education and service. This financially sustainable and replicable model will help ensure that the health needs of the hardest-to-reach girls are met, while providing a pathway to labor-market opportunity.

Specifically, the Grameen Nurse Institute will both benefit girls – as recipients of health care services and information – and position them as the future health care workforce by:

1. addressing the shortage of nurses through innovative teaching techniques and recruitment of rural young women,

2. creating a first-of-its-kind curriculum focused on the unique health needs of adolescent girls, and

3. creating a sustainable social business model with nurses as the central actors of the health care system.



Read more: http://www.centredaily.com/news/education/story/1523618.html#ixzz0S...

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