Health

Numerous BLCF projects have had a positive impact, both directly and indirectly, on the health needs of the Base of the Pyramid (BoP) group – the world’s poorest four billion people. These needs include nutrition, water delivery, sanitation and healthcare. BLCF initiatives successfully demonstrate how the private sector can find value in BoP markets, creating successful sustainable win-win projects which improve the health of the poorest communities.

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Empowering Female Contraception

Indian women have been empowered with access to affordable contraception to protect their reproductive health and combat the spread of HIV/AIDs, via a BLCF-supported link between female condom manufacturers and makers of Indian latex.


 

Safer Drinking Water in Asia

Local manufacture of water testing equipment in India and Bangladesh means that over 14,000 poor villages now have water free of arsenic and other health-damaging impurities, in a linking initiative which has also boosted the respective local economies.