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HEALTH EQUITY

WHEN is dedicated to advancing health equity for women in emerging markets worldwide, with sustainable financing at the core of our work.

WHEN is developing financial and implementation models to address the unique healthcare challenges faced by women, including maternal health, access to reproductive care, HIV/AIDS and women’s cancers.

Through advocacy, education, and innovative financing mechanisms, WHEN ensures that women have equal access to quality healthcare services and information, regardless of their location or socioeconomic status. By forging strategic partnerships with local healthcare providers, governments, the private sector, investors, and philanthropic organizations, WHEN strengthens end-to-end health systems that can become self-sustainable.

$1 Trillion
Can be added to global GDP Annually by investing in women’s health
25%
Disparity in Health Outcomes for Women

Building Resilient Health Systems Through Financial Stability

Financial sustainability beyond grant funding is critical for strong and resilient health systems. Building resilient health systems through financial sustainability involves ensuring that healthcare services are consistently funded and capable of withstanding economic shocks. By streamlining diverse funding sources, including public investment, private sector engagement, equity investment, and international aid, WHEN works to create a stable financial base. By leveraging innovative financing mechanisms, such as health insurance schemes and public-private partnerships, WHEN distributes financial risk, attracts investors, provides steady revenue streams, and lowers costs for patients at the last mile.

WHEN Partner Spotlight: Hub and Spoke Model in Indonesia

WHEN has been working with its network of partners to design implementation models that connect ”Hub” Centers of Excellence to “Spoke” Local Health Facilities in Indonesia. The models developed leverage technical assistance, concessional, and equity capital to build system resilience through investments into the health workforce, diagnostics, therapeutics, referral pathways, and digital health.

WHEN Program Spotlight: Developing Sustainable Women’s Health Delivery and Insurance Models

WHEN works with government partners, the private sector, donors and DFIs to design and deploy sustainable business models for healthcare delivery in Latin America, Southern Africa, and Southeast Asia. The system will be supported with a strengthened insurance model that can support gold-standard care while mitigating catastrophic health expenditure for patients.

To address the gaps in funding, WHEN is in the process of designing an investable model, based on partnerships with national telecom companies, private banks, development finance agencies, philanthropists, micro-insurance platforms, local governments, and infrastructure partners to create a comprehensive insurance model that both increases access to care while ensuring model sustainability.

WHEN Partner Spotlight: Unjani Clinic

Unjani Clinic provides accessible, high-quality and affordable healthcare solutions through dedicated and empathetic professionals who are committed to each and every patient. Unjani Clinics are set up using secondhand shipping containers and empowers Professional Nurses using social franchising principles to operate and ultimately own their own practice.

The Unjani Clinic model is self-sustaining, with funder investment being predominantly used for scaling. The existing clinic network operates on a self-sufficient basis due to the commercial clinics component.