Progress update on the Kit Yamoyo scale-up in Zambia for the stakeholders who support public health in Zambia. The meeting was held at the CDC offices in Lusaka.
For on-going updates please see: http://colalife.org/status
1. Kit Yamoyo Transition
to Scale (KYTS)
Cooperating Partners’ Meeting
Lusaka, Zambia
20-Oct-15
Simon Berry
CEO and co-founder
simon@colalife.org
colalife.org
2. Rohit Ramchandani
Jane Berry
The other members of the ColaLife team
We have no commercial interest in
anything I am going to describe to you
10. Diarrhoea
19%of infectious disease deaths
Malaria
15%of infectious disease deaths
AIDS
4%
Diarrhoea kills as many children than Malaria and AIDS combined
Source: Liu et al (2015) Global, regional, and national causes of child mortality in 2000–13, with projections to inform post-2015 priorities: an updated
systematic analysis. The Lancet.
11. In Zambia 46% of children are stunted (up to 70% in some areas)
18. Early 2012 | Pre-trial focus group work
What we learnt
Litre ORS sachets are too big
Measuring water was an issue
Willingness to pay
Preferred branding
20. Mar 2012 | Finalised the Kit Yamoyo design
Kit Yamoyo
• Attractive
21. Mar 2012 | Finalised the Kit Yamoyo design
Kit Yamoyo
• Attractive
• ORS sachets are 200ml
22. Mar 2012 | Finalised the Kit Yamoyo design
Kit Yamoyo
• Attractive
• ORS sachets are 200ml
• Packaging is also:
• A measuring device for
the water
23. Mar 2012 | Finalised the Kit Yamoyo design
Kit Yamoyo
• Attractive
• ORS sachets are 200ml
• Packaging is also:
• A measuring device for
the water
• A mixing device
24. Mar 2012 | Finalised the Kit Yamoyo design
Kit Yamoyo
• Attractive
• ORS sachets are 200ml
• Packaging is also:
• A measuring device for
the water
• A mixing device
• A storage device (the
soap tray is a lid)
• A cup
26. 60%
Only 60% of
mothers
mixed ORS
correctly
when given
litre sachets.
0
Nobody sold
ORS or Zinc
in the
private
sector.
<1%
of children
received the
correct
treatment
for diarrhoea
7.3km
Was the
average
distance to
ORS.
Sep 2012
Before we started
27. 60%
Only 60% of
mothers
mixed ORS
correctly
when given
litre sachets.
0
Nobody sold
ORS or Zinc
in the
private
sector.
<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.
Aug 2013
After 12 months
Sep 2012
Before we started
28. 60%
Only 60% of
mothers
mixed ORS
correctly
when given
litre sachets.
0
Nobody sold
ORS or Zinc
in the
private
sector.
<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/from
Zinc. Up a
baseline of
<1%.
Aug 2013
After 12 months
Sep 2012
Before we started
29. 60%
Only 60% of
mothers
mixed ORS
correctly
when given
litre sachets.
0
Nobody sold
ORS or Zinc
in the
private
sector.
<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/from
Zinc. Up a
baseline of
<1%.
2.4km
The distance
to ORS/Zinc in
the trial areas
was reduced
by two-thirds
from 7.3km to
2.4km.
Aug 2013
After 12 months
Sep 2012
Before we started
30. 60%
Only 60% of
mothers
mixed ORS
correctly
when given
litre sachets.
0
Nobody sold
ORS or Zinc
in the
private
sector.
<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/from
Zinc. Up a
baseline of
<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.
Aug 2013
After 12 months
Sep 2012
Before we started
31. 60%
Only 60% of
mothers
mixed ORS
correctly
when given
litre sachets.
0
Nobody sold
ORS or Zinc
in the
private
sector.
<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/from
Zinc. Up a
baseline of
<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.
Aug 2013
After 12 months
Sep 2012
Before we started
33. In Zambia, it’s the space in the market, not the space in the crates that is important.
This means we can revisit the packaging to make it cheaper.
Kit Yamoyo
Washing Powder
Eggs
Biscuits
Cola – but not Coca-Cola
Bread
40. Scale-up
Control districts
Trial – Sep-12 to Sep-13
Transition – from Oct-13
Transition districts
Intervention districts
KYTS-ACE – from Feb-15
Progress towards national scale-up
42. Scale-up
Control districts
KYTS-LUSAKA – from Oct-15
Trial – Sep-12 to Sep-13
Transition – from Oct-13
Transition districts
Intervention districts
KYTS-ACE – from Feb-15
Progress towards national scale-up
43. Scale-up
Control districts
KYTS-LUSAKA – from Oct-15
Trial – Sep-12 to Sep-13
Transition – from Oct-13
Transition districts
Intervention districts
KYTS-ACE – from Feb-15
Progress towards national scale-up
45. Campaigning for…
1. 200ml ORS sachets for home use
2. Co-packaging of ORS and Zinc
3. ORS and Zinc as over the counter
medicines
4. People to understand that all our
designs, learning and findings are theirs
to take and use for FREE – we are NOT
promoting a product – we are promoting
a game-changing new approach to
diarrhoea treatment in the home
46. Thank you to the ColaLife funders past and present
Isenberg Family
Charitable Foundation
47. Thank you to the ColaLife funders - current
Isenberg Family
Charitable Foundation
[Presentation description: This presentation describes the progress of UK charity ColaLife from its initial concept to ‘piggyback’ simple medicines, at the ‘last mile’ of distribution in developing countries, through to the results and learning from the 2 year trial in Zambia, to scale-up plans to cover the whole of Zambia and spread designs and learning more widely.]
I also want to recognise my colleagues.
Jane works with me full-time when she hasn’t got Shingles which is the case at the moment. She is my partner in life and ColaLife.
Rohit is based in Canada and works with us part-time. He is our public health adviser and it completing his Doctoral in Public Health at Johns Hopkins University.
I also want to recognise my colleagues.
Jane works with me full-time when she hasn’t got Shingles which is the case at the moment. She is my partner in life and ColaLife.
Rohit is based in Canada and works with us part-time. He is our public health adviser and it completing his Doctoral in Public Health at Johns Hopkins University.
I also want to recognise my colleagues.
Jane works with me full-time when she hasn’t got Shingles which is the case at the moment. She is my partner in life and ColaLife.
Rohit is based in Canada and works with us part-time. He is our public health adviser and it completing his Doctoral in Public Health at Johns Hopkins University.
This is the first observation I mentioned
Against this backdrop, 1 in 5 children didn’t make it to their 5th birthday.
– 25 times higher than here in Europe.
ColaLife wants to make this picture for developing countries look like…
… this one.
Just as shocking as this level of mortality is the fact that diarrhoea, an easily treated condition, is the second biggest killer. It was back in 1985 and still now.
Dehydration from diarrhoea kills more children than Malaria and HIV/AIDS combined.
Just as shocking as this level of mortality is the fact that diarrhoea, an easily treated condition, is the second biggest killer. It was back in 1985 and still now.
Dehydration from diarrhoea kills more children than Malaria and HIV/AIDS combined.
Against this backdrop of high mortality and the lack of essential medicines to treat diarrhoea, you can get a Coca-Cola (and other FMCGs) in most places,
While community shops are well stocked with the things people want, the public sector struggles to keep public health centres stocked with essential medicines.
This brings me to the idea…
Coca-Cola get everywhere so if we put medicines in the crates that would get everywhere too.
This brings me to the idea…
This was perhaps our most important activity in the whole trial – talking to mothers about diarrhoea treatment in the home.
We learned four key things:
Litre sachets are too big
Measuring water is problem
We also got an indication of how much they might pay for an anti-diarrhoea kit
And how they’d like it branded
This is the resulting product – Kit Yamoyo – is:
• attractive – aspirational even
• it contains 200ml sachets of ORS
• the packaging acts as a measure for the water
• it’s also a mixing device for the ORS
• and can be used as a cup
Thanks to DfID funding we will start scale-up where most people live - over 2 million of Zambia’s 13 million people live here.
As the final step to national scale-up we will seek support to develop the market in the Copperbelt (green circle) where another 2 milllion live.
So it’s no wonder that diarrhoea holds its position as the 2nd biggest killer of under 5 children.
So what happened during our 12-month trial?
• From a standing start we sold 26,000 kits to retailers serving the trial communities
So what happened during our 12-month trial?
• We increased treatment rates from <1% to 45%
So what happened during our 12-month trial?
• We reduced the distance mothers had to travel to access treatment – shops are a lot closer to people’s homes that clinics
So what happened during our 12-month trial?
• And through the design of the kit we increased correct measurement of the ORS from 60% to 93%. When using Kit Yamoyo, 93% of mothers got the mixing right
Before and after…
But here’s the shock:
• Only 4% of the 26,000 kits sold travelled to the village in Coca-Cola crates
In practice, this is what happened.
It wasn’t the space in the crates that was important, it was the space in the market. We had designed and marketed an aspirational product (just like Coke) which people wanted and which retailers could make a profit bring to the communities and selling (just like Coke).
We design and product TOGETHER WITH its value chain.
The Kit Yamoyo has captured people’s imagination and won many global health, design and innovation awards.
In Sep-13 it was featured at the UN General Assembly as a breakthrough innovation in Child Health.
In Mar-14 it was show-cased by PATH and PSI in their Best Buys for Global Health initiative.
Thanks to DfID funding we will start scale-up where most people live - over 2 million of Zambia’s 13 million people live here.
As the final step to national scale-up we will seek support to develop the market in the Copperbelt (green circle) where another 2 milllion live.
Because the kit no longer needs to fit in Coca-Cola crates we can move to cheaper packaging options.
In the scale-up we will be using two new packaging formats:
• a screw-top
• a flexible pack
Because the kit no longer needs to fit in Coca-Cola crates we can move to cheaper packaging options.
In the scale-up we will be using two new packaging formats:
• a screw-top
• a flexible pack
Because the kit no longer needs to fit in Coca-Cola crates we can move to cheaper packaging options.
In the scale-up we will be using two new packaging formats:
• a screw-top
• a flexible pack
Thanks to DfID funding we will start scale-up where most people live - over 2 million of Zambia’s 13 million people live here.
As the final step to national scale-up we will seek support to develop the market in the Copperbelt (green circle) where another 2 milllion live.
Because the kit no longer needs to fit in Coca-Cola crates we can move to cheaper packaging options.
In the scale-up we will be using two new packaging formats:
• a screw-top
• a flexible pack
Thanks to DfID funding we will start scale-up where most people live - over 2 million of Zambia’s 13 million people live here.
As the final step to national scale-up we will seek support to develop the market in the Copperbelt (green circle) where another 2 milllion live.
Thanks to DfID funding we will start scale-up where most people live - over 2 million of Zambia’s 13 million people live here.
As the final step to national scale-up we will seek support to develop the market in the Copperbelt (green circle) where another 2 milllion live.
And at the same time we are campaigning for:
The production of 200ml ORS sachets for treatment of diarrhoea in the home – we don’t care who produces them – we just want them to be produced and available on the market.
The co-packaging of ORS and Zinc to improve the likelihood that they are dispensed together
ORS and Zinc to be classified as over the counter medicines. They are in many places but not everywhere. This classification will mean that the all pervasive FMCG distribution channels will be open to co-packaged ORS and Zinc
People to understand that ColaLife is not selling anything! We want to give all our designs, learning and findings away for others to exploit for free. We are not selling a product or ideas, we are promoting a game-changing approach to diarrhoea treatment in the home
It was the early commitment of funds to the ColaLife idea that leveraged all the other support for the trial and subsequent to the trial additional funders have come on-board. Notably Ceniarth and the Isenberg Family Charitable Foundation have provided ‘catalytic’ funding and we have always enjoyed support from individual supporters.
It was the early commitment of funds to the ColaLife idea that leveraged all the other support for the trial and subsequent to the trial additional funders have come on-board. Notably Ceniarth and the Isenberg Family Charitable Foundation have provided ‘catalytic’ funding and we have always enjoyed support from individual supporters.