Did you know?

• 4 billion consumers lack access to affordable, quality healthcare*
• $158 billion size of the low income healthcare market*
•  $300 billion market for healthcare will exist by 2014*

Millions of the world’s poor face health crises on a regular basis, and the tragedy is compounded by the fact that many common diseases of poverty are preventable and treatable with inexpensive health products and medicines.

By leveraging the core assets of CSOs and business, Ashoka's Full Economic Citizenship (FEC) is creating an ecosystem to provide high-quality “lastmile” healthcare in the form of franchise healthpoints. FEC is helping prevent the diseases of poverty by improving access to infrastructure, accurate diagnosis, effective drugs and frontline care.  In addition, it demonstrates how a health ecosystem using a franchise model will provide rural and peri-urban dwellers with convenient, “lastmile” healthcare.

Franchise pharmacy/clinic networks, or healthpoints, will be established in India, Philippines, Mexico, Kenya, Vietnam and Pakistan with the potential to reach 40 million low-income consumers in 4-5 years. This approach is applicable to many other countries.

Read more about the healthcare program.

Collaborative Entrepreneurship in Action

Ashoka is partnering with the Naandi Foundation to pilot healthpoints in India. The Naandi Foundation is an Indian citizen sector organization that has pioneered a breakthrough low-cost water treatment model enabling 3 million customers daily to clean drinking and cooking water for $0.01 dollars per person per day.

* Facts from Next Billion Publication