World Malaria Day special feature: Malaria control is the topic of 3 recent social innovation projects in Uganda and Malawi. This collaboration with the Bertha Centre for Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the University of Cape Town, the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship at Oxford University, and the London School for Hygiene and Tropical Medicine has conducted in-depth field visits and published case studies of the work.
Drug Shops, Uganda
This innovation has adopted the WHO/UNICEF strategy for integrated Community Case Management (iCCM) to improve quality of services in private drug shops. It harnesses the potential of drug shop owners to recognise malaria, pneumonia and diarrhoea and deliver appropriate diagnostics and treatment that is affordable and accessible to families.
Learner Treatment Kit, Malawi
This innovation has adopted the WHO/UNICEF strategy for integrated Community Case Management (iCCM) to improve quality of services in private drug shops. It harnesses the potential of drug shop owners to recognise malaria, pneumonia and diarrhoea and deliver appropriate diagnostics and treatment that is affordable and accessible to families.
Living Goods, Uganda
Living Goods developed a system of village-based health entrepreneurs who go door-to-door teaching families how to improve their health and wealth. They also sell life-changing products like simple treatments for malaria and diarrhoea, safe delivery kits, fortified foods, clean cook stoves, water filters and solar lights.