PharmAccess mobilizes public and private resources for the benefit of doctors and patients through clinical standards and quality improvements, loans for healthcare providers, health insurance, mHealth innovations and operational research.
Public-private partnerships for healthcare have recently attracted great interest as a tool to achieve improvements in efficiency, consumer choice, and accessibility to healthcare.
Public-private partnerships for healthcare have recently attracted great interest as a tool to achieve improvements in efficiency, consumer choice, and accessibility to healthcare. This chapter covers both practical and theoretical implications of public-private partnerships. First, it starts with a theoretical explanation of the reasons why public and private institutions engage in partnerships. Next, the chapter provides an overview of a number of influential multinational public-private partnerships for HIV. The remainder of this chapter draws attention to the potential role that local public-private partnerships could play in the creation of a strengthened, sustainable health infrastructure in sub-Saharan Africa.
