Goodlife is now the leading pharmacy brand in East Africa and it continues to build its presence in Kenya and Uganda.It expects to reach 100 stores by 2021 and reach over 5.5 million people.Increasing store profitability continues to be an importantfocus for Goodlife.
... See More + By mid-2018, most Goodlife stores were profitable, with younger stores expected to break even as they mature. The company is pushing top-line growth by driving foot traffic to stores, increasing sales conversions and basket size, and improving the average fill rate on each prescription dispensed and the average number ofprescriptions filled per day. It recently launched a national advertising campaign and began to reach out to general physicians to encourage them to talk to their patientsabout the importance of quality medicine. It has also launched insurance partnerships with more than five major private sector insurance companies to cover prescription medicine. Over time, the company also hopes to partnerwith Kenya’s National Health Insurance Fund (NHIF), which has six million members, when it rolls out coverage which includes private outpatient pharmacies. Goodlife is demonstrating that there is a business opportunity to bring a modern, high-quality pharmacy experience to the emerging consumer segment. At the same time, the company is progressing in becoming a hub for basic primacy health services akin to the path taken by large pharmacy chains in other countries. Flexibility,continuous learning, and adaptation will be critical to Goodlife’s growth and success as it navigates unchartered territory in serving the emerging consumers segment.
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ESS4 recognizes that project activities, equipment, and infrastructure can increase community exposure to risks and impacts. In addition, communities that are already subjected to impacts from climate change may also experience an acceleration or intensification of impacts due to project activities.
... See More + ESS4 addresses the health, safety, and security risks and impacts on project-affected communities and the corresponding responsibility of Borrowers to avoid or minimize such risks and impacts, with particular attention to people who, because of their particular circumstances, may be vulnerable.
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The catastrophic costs of pandemics and zoonotic outbreaks with pandemic potential have a long and notorious history in human civilization, and presage an increasingly alarming future prognosis.
... See More + Highly virulent infectious diseases, such as the plague, cholera, and influenza, have repeatedly swept through human societies, causing death, economic chaos, and political and social disorder. As the threat of pandemics grows in a globalized world where viruses move and mutate faster than ever before, so does the case for increasing the world's resilience and capacity to prepare, detect and respond to epidemic threats. Vaccines are a critical component of that response. However, the vaccine pipeline is weak for most epidemic threats, and there is an urgent and pressing need for a system that will advance vaccine candidates as far as possible before epidemics emerge, and then run efficacy trials immediately when they do. The Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) was created to address the financing gap for development of vaccines for Epidemic Infectious Diseases (EIDs). The mission of CEPI is fully aligned with the Bank's twin goals of ending poverty and promoting shared prosperity. By partnering with CEPI, the Bank will twin the financing for development of vaccines with several ongoing initiatives to potentially leverage vaccine development and deployment to higher levels of effectiveness and impact. The rest of this paper is organized as follows. Section II provides the strategic context and rationale for the Bank's engagement as Trustee. Section III presents the proposed Trustee engagement. Section IV outlines risks identified along with mitigation measures. Section V includes the proposed recommendation.
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Deadly infectious pandemics will mark humanity's future, as they have shaped its past. Neither individual governments nor the global community can entirely prevent the emergence of infectious threats.
... See More + But we can be much better prepared. This report by the International Working Group on Financing Preparedness (IWG) proposes ways in which national governments and development partners can finance investments in country and regional preparedness and response capacities for pandemics and other health emergencies. Preparedness for pandemics refers to health and non-health interventions, capabilities, and capacities at community, country, regional, and global levels. Their purpose is to prevent, detect, contain and respond to the spread of disease and other hazards, mitigating social disruptions and limiting risks to international travel and trade.
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What is commonly called the tourism sector is in fact part of the wholesale and retail trade or commerce sector under the System of National Accounts.
... See More + However, due to the growing importance of tourism activities, especially for some countries where tourism is a significant contributor to gross domestic product, efforts have been made in recent times to measure their value under a separate satellite account. The tourism sector is highly vulnerable to the effects and impacts of disasters of every kind. This is due to three main reasons: first, the frequent or usual location of tourism assets in vulnerable coastal areas; second, the volatility of tourism demand due to fear or misinformation about the possible consequences of disasters; and third, in view of the seasonality of the high-demand tourism season, a disaster may mean an entire season’s worth of lost income. This paper describes the procedure to assess the effects of a disaster on the tourism sector, using the time-proven methodology originally developed by the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (UNECLAC) (Handbook for estimating the socio-economic and environmental impact of disasters, 4 volumes, United Nations, 2003), further developed by the World Bank´s Global Facility for Disaster Recovery and Reduction (GFDRR) (Guidance Notes for Damage, Loss and Needs Assessment, 3 volumes, The World Bank, Washington, D.C., 2010), and now expanded and adopted by the Post-disaster needs assessment (PDNA). Application of the methodology enables the assessment of disasters’ economic and social impact on the tourism sector, and the estimation of post-disaster needs for recovery and reconstruction.
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Last April’s East Asia update noted the threat to regional and global public health from outbreaks of avian influenza A (H5N1) in East Asia. Since then outbreaks among wild birds and poultry have spread to Russia, Kazakhstan, Turkey, Romania and Croatia, while, in East Asia, new outbreaks this year have occurred in Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Lao People's Democratic Republic (PDR), Thailand, and Vietnam.
... See More + While the bulk of human cases so far are thought to be the result of transmission of the virus from animals to humans, there is great concern that genetic changes will allow the H5N1 virus to achieve the capacity for efficient and sustained transmission among humans, leading to a human influenza pandemic, with high levels of illness, death and other human, economic, and social costs in East Asia and around the world. As a result the question of how to prevent or prepare for such a pandemic is quickly vaulting to a top priority for governments around the world. Since a human influenza pandemic will rapidly spread all over the world, stopping or controlling avian flu is therefore a true global public good, which all countries have an interest in acquiring. Thus, while country level leadership and engagement is essential for success, it must be backed by global resources.
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