Health Affairs

Health Affairs, 28, no. 4 (2009): 948 doi: 10.1377/hlthaff.28.4.948 © 2009 by Project HOPE	New Online   Reinhardt: Post-Summit   Report from the Summit   President's Reform Proposal   Rising Medicare Costs   Spending for Immigrants   $2.5 Trillion U.S. Health Tab   Child Obesity Briefing

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Tools & Technologies

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Spreading Tools And Technologies

New drugs, vaccines, and diagnostic tests could save millions of lives each year in the developing world, but organizations wishing to deliver them will confront a multifaceted problem: how to get products to people who need them most. Target populations may lack access to health clinics or other venues where they can obtain needed therapies. Manufacturers may not want to develop products without the promise of reasonable profits. Then there’s the problem of managing the many players—international, national, and local—that must cooperate in creating a product and getting it to the user. The papers in this section examine lessons learned . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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