Since the Nobel Prize, Yunus has given special priority to searching out social business health care
partnerships.
One of the great side-effects of the
focus on healthcare social business modelling has been an accelerated understanding of which diseases tend to be the most economical to solve (either prevention
or cost-effective treatment). The killer disease of infants - diarrhea - is Bangladesh's classic social business case : knowledge needed to flow (the mediciine's
ingredients of sugar, salt and water cost little) . Here is a list of some of the other diseases SB is helping the
world's poorest to recover from (please help us lengthen the list RSVP info@worldcitizen.tv :
unnecessary blindness - aravind model for cataracts
infant night blindness - grameen vegetable (eg carrott) seeds
too little local
intervention due to lack on nurses- Grameen Nursing Colege
mobile app tracking various risks at pregnancy - grameen intel
clean water solutions : grameen veolia, nandi ..
hearing aids - social business earth which is also currently questioning how to end ricketts
various extremely affordable healthcare solutions identified
at the poster competition of the world congress (America's leading health conference owned by the same man that heads Grameen
America)
Against this positive news, some diseases require a complete transformation to how aid is
run - malaria being one case. Just as well that Hilary Clinton is giving a strong voice to micro-up interventions
http://www.developmentpartners.tv/
.