The Global Health Initiative (GHI) is a tripartite cooperation among Northwestern University, nonprofit donors, and commercial diagnostics companies. GHI attempts to bridge the difference between the marketplace for advanced medical diagnostics gear in wealthy nations and the need for point-of-care diagnostics in resource limited settings. For underserved nations its focus narrowed to HIV diagnostics in 2006. The case examines the truth-access tradeoff related to the roll out of infant HIV diagnostics in Tanzania. Tanzania has a common HIV/AIDS issue, especially in kids. As of 2007, Tanzania had an estimated 140,000 children infected with HIV. Existing laboratory-established diagnostic equipment was either not accurate for use in babies or needed highly skilled health workers.
The limited infrastructure of Tanzania additionally driven health care suppliers to choose between providing care that was advanced to a minority of the people and offering minimal care to the bulk with inferior access. A Kellogg MBA student research team perform more than thirty in-country interviews to gather data on stakeholder perceptions of three infant test theories: the strip evaluation, the power play test, and the filter paper test. Across the three tests, access fell as precision increased -rural labs couldn't find or afford health workers proficient enough to conduct the test. Generally speaking, interviewees closely affiliated with the authorities preferred correctness over accessibility. By comparison, private health facilities had to follow preferred access over precision and fewer regulations. The case targets the conclusions facing Kara Palamountain, the executive director of GHI, in her roll out recommendations for infant HIV tests in Tanzania. It examines crucial variables of working in a developing country, including the demand to control in the lack of adequate market research, balance the competing plans of different stakeholders, and mitigate external hazards such as major international funding drying up.
PUBLICATION DATE: December 31, 2008 PRODUCT #: KEL384-HCB-ENG
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