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PFIZER ANNUAL REVIEW 2014 www.pzer.com/annual 60
ANNUAL REVIEW 2014
Our World > Access to Medicines
BUILDING HEALTH CARE CAPACITY
AROUND THE GLOBE
ACCESS TO MEDICINES
Weak or non-existent health care infrastructures represent a
signicant impediment — among the largest — to access. We
continue to explore and implement models and approaches tailored to
the diverse needs of patients in different geographies. Seeking holistic
approaches, we work closely with governments, health organizations
and other stakeholders to address the complex challenges around
improving health for the underserved.
IMPROVING
MATERNAL
AND NEONATAL
EMERGENCY
RESPONSE
READ MORE
“Last-Mile” Vaccine Coverage
in Africa and Asia
The Pzer Foundation is providing $3 million to support
demonstration projects with the goal of improving immunization
coverage in Africa and Asia. The programs will focus on “last-mile”
interventions to reach children in remote locations in Indonesia,
Ethiopia, Malawi, Pakistan, Rwanda, Uganda and Zambia. Efforts
support the United Nations Millennium Development Goal 4: to
reduce under-ve child mortality by two-thirds between 1990 and
2015 by building the capacity of health care systems to ensure
that efcient and sustainable vaccine supplies are available to
reach children who need access to vaccines. Interventions include
providing health workers with mobile phones and solar-powered
tablets to register children and help track vaccination schedules in
real time. Short-message service (SMS) systems will be used to
monitor vaccines and equipment to identify bottlenecks in the supply
chain and prevent stock outs.
Impact Investing
The Pzer Foundation implemented a new strategy in impact
investing to support social entrepreneurs and health innovators with
the goal of improving health care delivery for populations at the base
of the pyramid. Investments are made into funds with the intention
to generate social impact alongside a potential nancial return, and
targeted grants will help to catalyze the pipeline of health innovators
and provide technical assistance for growth. For example, we are
working with the Unitus Seed Fund, which provides startup capital to
enterprises that serve populations in India and Southeast Asia, and
Acumen Capital Markets II, which focuses on India and East Africa.
Our investments in 2014 built on an initial investment in the
Global Health Investment Fund (GHIF), a rst-of-its-kind social
investment fund designed to advance the development of drugs,
vaccines, diagnostics and other interventions against diseases
that disproportionately burden low income countries. For more
information please see http://ghif.com/.