ColaLife is a UK-based charity that aims to save children's lives by innovating healthcare delivery and increasing access to life-saving medicines. They conducted a trial in Malawi where they packaged oral rehydration salts (ORS) and zinc with soap in an affordable "Kit Yamoyo." This product was distributed through existing private sector supply chains, pulling the kits into remote rural communities. The trial demonstrated that the Kit Yamoyo approach dramatically increased access to ORS/zinc, with 45% of children receiving treatment compared to less than 1% previously. It also improved correct use of ORS from 60% to 93%. ColaLife's experience highlights the importance of private sector distribution and designing products people want to
ColaLife presentation to the ANDi Workshop, Addis Ababa, Jan-15
1. The ColaLife panel contribution
Consultation on transforming healthcare delivery
ANDi, Addis Ababa, January 2015 Simon Berry
2. ColaLife is a charity registered in the UK
Charity number: 1142516
• Small, independent and catalytic
• Focus on saving children’s lives
• Looking for global impact through
• Innovation
• Generating robust evidence
• Sharing findings and learning
• Influencing healthcare strategies
• No commercial interest
2009 2010 2011 2012 20131985
What is ColaLife and who am I?
3. The scope of our work
What happened
Our starting point
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The effects
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The ColaLife contribution
Consultation on transforming healthcare delivery
ANDi, Addis Ababa, January 2015
Recommendations
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What we did
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4. The scope of our work
What happened
Our starting point
The effects
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The ColaLife contribution
Consultation on transforming healthcare delivery
ANDi, Addis Ababa, January 2015
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What we did
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5. The scope of our work
What happened
Our starting point
The effects
The ColaLife contribution
Consultation on transforming healthcare delivery
ANDi, Addis Ababa, January 2015
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What we did
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10. The scope of our work
What happened
Our starting point
The effects
The ColaLife contribution
Consultation on transforming healthcare delivery
ANDi, Addis Ababa, January 2015
Recommendations
What we did
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12. Mimicking Coca-Cola – creating a product people WANT
What we learnt
Litre sachets are too big
Measuring water was an issue
Willingness to pay
Preferred branding
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13. Kit Yamoyo
• Attractive
• Affordable
• Packaging is also:
• A measuring device for
the water
• A mixing device
• A storage device (the
soap tray is a lid)
• A cup
• And can be re-used
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15. The scope of our work
What happened
Our starting point
The effects
The ColaLife contribution
Consultation on transforming healthcare delivery
ANDi, Addis Ababa, January 2015
Recommendations
What we did
2 3
4 5 6
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24. The scope of our work
What happened
Our starting point
The effects
The ColaLife contribution
Consultation on transforming healthcare delivery
ANDi, Addis Ababa, January 2015
Recommendations
What we did
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4 5 6
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25. 0Nobody sold ORS
or Zinc in the
private sector.
Stock-outs in the
public sector were
common.
26. 0Nobody sold ORS
or Zinc in the
private sector.
Stock-outs in the
public sector were
common.
<1%of children
received the
correct treatment
for diarrhoea
27. 0Nobody sold ORS
or Zinc in the
private sector.
Stock-outs in the
public sector were
common.
<1%of children
received the
correct treatment
for diarrhoea
7.3km
Was the average
distance to ORS.
28. 60%Only 60% of
mothers mixed
ORS correctly
when given
1 litre sachets.
0Nobody sold ORS
or Zinc in the
private sector.
Stock-outs in the
public sector were
common.
<1%of children
received the
correct treatment
for diarrhoea
7.3km
Was the average
distance to ORS.
29. 60%Only 60% of
mothers mixed
ORS correctly
when given
1 litre sachets.
0Nobody sold ORS
or Zinc in the
private sector.
Stock-outs in the
public sector were
common.
<1%of children
received the
correct treatment
for diarrhoea
7.3km
Was the average
distance to ORS.
30. 60%Only 60% of
mothers mixed
ORS correctly
when given
1 litre sachets.
0Nobody sold ORS
or Zinc in the
private sector.
Stock-outs in the
public sector were
common.
<1%of children
received the
correct treatment
for diarrhoea
7.3km
Was the average
distance to ORS.
>26k
kits sold into the
two remote rural
trial areas in
12 months.
31. 60%Only 60% of
mothers mixed
ORS correctly
when given
1 litre sachets.
0Nobody sold ORS
or Zinc in the
private sector.
Stock-outs in the
public sector were
common.
<1%of children
received the
correct treatment
for diarrhoea
7.3km
Was the average
distance to ORS.
>26k
kits sold into the
two remote rural
trial areas in
12 months.
45%of children in trial
areas received
ORS/Zinc. Up
from a baseline
of <1%.
Comparator sites
stayed at <1%.
32. 60%Only 60% of
mothers mixed
ORS correctly
when given
1 litre sachets.
0Nobody sold ORS
or Zinc in the
private sector.
Stock-outs in the
public sector were
common.
<1%of children
received the
correct treatment
for diarrhoea
7.3km
Was the average
distance to ORS.
>26k
kits sold into the
two remote rural
trial areas in
12 months.
45%of children in trial
areas received
ORS/Zinc. Up
from a baseline
of <1%.
Comparator sites
stayed at <1%.
2.4km
The distance to
ORS/Zinc in the
trial areas was
reduced by two-
thirds from
7.3km to 2.4km.
33. 60%Only 60% of
mothers mixed
ORS correctly
when given
1 litre sachets.
0Nobody sold ORS
or Zinc in the
private sector.
Stock-outs in the
public sector were
common.
<1%of children
received the
correct treatment
for diarrhoea
7.3km
Was the average
distance to ORS.
>26k
kits sold into the
two remote rural
trial areas in
12 months.
45%of children in trial
areas received
ORS/Zinc. Up
from a baseline
of <1%.
Comparator sites
stayed at <1%.
2.4km
The distance to
ORS/Zinc in the
trial areas was
reduced by two-
thirds from
7.3km to 2.4km.
93%of Kit Yamoyo
users mixed ORS
correctly. Only
60% do when
given 1 litre
sachets.
34. 60%Only 60% of
mothers mixed
ORS correctly
when given
1 litre sachets.
0Nobody sold ORS
or Zinc in the
private sector.
Stock-outs in the
public sector were
common.
<1%of children
received the
correct treatment
for diarrhoea
7.3km
Was the average
distance to ORS.
>26k
kits sold into the
two remote rural
trial areas in
12 months.
45%of children in trial
areas received
ORS/Zinc. Up
from a baseline
of <1%.
Comparator sites
stayed at <1%.
2.4km
The distance to
ORS/Zinc in the
trial areas was
reduced by two-
thirds from
7.3km to 2.4km.
93%of Kit Yamoyo
users mixed ORS
correctly. Only
60% do when
given 1 litre
sachets.
35. The scope of our work
What happened
Our starting point
The effects
The ColaLife contribution
Consultation on transforming healthcare delivery
ANDi, Addis Ababa, January 2015
Recommendations
What we did
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4 5 6
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36. 6
Don’t ignore EXISTING private sector supply chains in
your strategy to distribute over the counter medicines
37. Focus on what you know people WANT not on what you
think they NEED
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I have no commercial interest in the commercial product I will show you.
But are strategy for impact is that others will find it of commercial interest – more of that later.
Despite the remoteness and sparsity of population I could get a Coca-Cola in most places I went.
These days it’s 1 in 8 – so it has improved but it is still unacceptably high
– 25 times higher than here in Canada. And still diarrhoea is killer number two.
In the recent review of the Millennium Development Goals, more developed countries which already had low mortality rates have reduced their mortality rates more than less developed countries. So the gulf is growing between rich and poor countries.
Just as shocking as this level of mortality is that diarrhoea, an easily treated condition, is the second biggest killer.
Dehydration from diarrhoea kills more children than Malaria and HIV/AIDS combined.
This was the trial timeline.
We had 9-month set-up phase, a 12-month trial phase and 3-month wrapping up phase – although we haven’t wrapped up as you will learn later.
In the set-up phase:
Our partners recruited the field staff they needed
We finalised the packaging design
We undertook baseline surveys to assess the situation before we intervened
We then went into a 12-month trial phase
Despite their humble resources, the Facebook Group and blog had generated global interest in the idea and these were mustered to try and get a trial started.
We have designed the trial so that we have created a new product and its end to end value chain.
Usually, aid projects focus on distribution – and that can involve purchasing and maintaining 4 wheel drive, for example.
We have focused on value chain creation, where profits are made at each step, as a trade intervention.
In a value chain, value flows BACK from the customer, and we have assured this in the first 6 months of the trial by distributing vouchers. For the second half of the trial we are going to be seeing if there is sufficient ‘value’ to capture in rural areas. Another way of putting that is Willingness to Pay.
(The price paid by the wholesaler is USD 0.5741 (approx $60 us cents) meaning that the subsidy per kit during the trial is USD 1.2712. Just over a dollar ($1.20).
We have designed the trial so that we have created a new product and its end to end value chain.
Usually, aid projects focus on distribution – and that can involve purchasing and maintaining 4 wheel drive, for example.
We have focused on value chain creation, where profits are made at each step, as a trade intervention.
In a value chain, value flows BACK from the customer, and we have assured this in the first 6 months of the trial by distributing vouchers. For the second half of the trial we are going to be seeing if there is sufficient ‘value’ to capture in rural areas. Another way of putting that is Willingness to Pay.
(The price paid by the wholesaler is USD 0.5741 (approx $60 us cents) meaning that the subsidy per kit during the trial is USD 1.2712. Just over a dollar ($1.20).
We have designed the trial so that we have created a new product and its end to end value chain.
Usually, aid projects focus on distribution – and that can involve purchasing and maintaining 4 wheel drive, for example.
We have focused on value chain creation, where profits are made at each step, as a trade intervention.
In a value chain, value flows BACK from the customer, and we have assured this in the first 6 months of the trial by distributing vouchers. For the second half of the trial we are going to be seeing if there is sufficient ‘value’ to capture in rural areas. Another way of putting that is Willingness to Pay.
(The price paid by the wholesaler is USD 0.5741 (approx $60 us cents) meaning that the subsidy per kit during the trial is USD 1.2712. Just over a dollar ($1.20).
We have designed the trial so that we have created a new product and its end to end value chain.
Usually, aid projects focus on distribution – and that can involve purchasing and maintaining 4 wheel drive, for example.
We have focused on value chain creation, where profits are made at each step, as a trade intervention.
In a value chain, value flows BACK from the customer, and we have assured this in the first 6 months of the trial by distributing vouchers. For the second half of the trial we are going to be seeing if there is sufficient ‘value’ to capture in rural areas. Another way of putting that is Willingness to Pay.
(The price paid by the wholesaler is USD 0.5741 (approx $60 us cents) meaning that the subsidy per kit during the trial is USD 1.2712. Just over a dollar ($1.20).
We have designed the trial so that we have created a new product and its end to end value chain.
Usually, aid projects focus on distribution – and that can involve purchasing and maintaining 4 wheel drive, for example.
We have focused on value chain creation, where profits are made at each step, as a trade intervention.
In a value chain, value flows BACK from the customer, and we have assured this in the first 6 months of the trial by distributing vouchers. For the second half of the trial we are going to be seeing if there is sufficient ‘value’ to capture in rural areas. Another way of putting that is Willingness to Pay.
(The price paid by the wholesaler is USD 0.5741 (approx $60 us cents) meaning that the subsidy per kit during the trial is USD 1.2712. Just over a dollar ($1.20).
We have designed the trial so that we have created a new product and its end to end value chain.
Usually, aid projects focus on distribution – and that can involve purchasing and maintaining 4 wheel drive, for example.
We have focused on value chain creation, where profits are made at each step, as a trade intervention.
In a value chain, value flows BACK from the customer, and we have assured this in the first 6 months of the trial by distributing vouchers. For the second half of the trial we are going to be seeing if there is sufficient ‘value’ to capture in rural areas. Another way of putting that is Willingness to Pay.
(The price paid by the wholesaler is USD 0.5741 (approx $60 us cents) meaning that the subsidy per kit during the trial is USD 1.2712. Just over a dollar ($1.20).
We have designed the trial so that we have created a new product and its end to end value chain.
Usually, aid projects focus on distribution – and that can involve purchasing and maintaining 4 wheel drive, for example.
We have focused on value chain creation, where profits are made at each step, as a trade intervention.
In a value chain, value flows BACK from the customer, and we have assured this in the first 6 months of the trial by distributing vouchers. For the second half of the trial we are going to be seeing if there is sufficient ‘value’ to capture in rural areas. Another way of putting that is Willingness to Pay.
(The price paid by the wholesaler is USD 0.5741 (approx $60 us cents) meaning that the subsidy per kit during the trial is USD 1.2712. Just over a dollar ($1.20).
We have designed the trial so that we have created a new product and its end to end value chain.
Usually, aid projects focus on distribution – and that can involve purchasing and maintaining 4 wheel drive, for example.
We have focused on value chain creation, where profits are made at each step, as a trade intervention.
In a value chain, value flows BACK from the customer, and we have assured this in the first 6 months of the trial by distributing vouchers. For the second half of the trial we are going to be seeing if there is sufficient ‘value’ to capture in rural areas. Another way of putting that is Willingness to Pay.
(The price paid by the wholesaler is USD 0.5741 (approx $60 us cents) meaning that the subsidy per kit during the trial is USD 1.2712. Just over a dollar ($1.20).
Less than 1% of children received the correct treatment for diarrhoea – ORS and Zinc.
Less than 1% of children received the correct treatment for diarrhoea – ORS and Zinc.
Less than 1% of children received the correct treatment for diarrhoea – ORS and Zinc.
Less than 1% of children received the correct treatment for diarrhoea – ORS and Zinc.
Less than 1% of children received the correct treatment for diarrhoea – ORS and Zinc.
Less than 1% of children received the correct treatment for diarrhoea – ORS and Zinc.
Less than 1% of children received the correct treatment for diarrhoea – ORS and Zinc.
Less than 1% of children received the correct treatment for diarrhoea – ORS and Zinc.
Less than 1% of children received the correct treatment for diarrhoea – ORS and Zinc.
Less than 1% of children received the correct treatment for diarrhoea – ORS and Zinc.