Welcome

At the Center for Private Sector Health Initiatives, our mission is to improve the health and well-being of people in developing countries, particularly those at the "base of the pyramid," by facilitating beneficial partnerships between the public and private sectors—both for-profit, commercial entities and non-governmental actors—to provide health information, services, and products that are affordable, accessible, and of high quality.

Our Center's projects improve the lives of millions of people whom we touch, in the areas of reproductive health and family planning; maternal and child health; nutrition; and the prevention of HIV/AIDS, malaria, and water-borne diseases. We emphasize capacity building at all levels—in the private and public sectors. We forge public/private partnerships. And we factor sustainability into all of our activities. Our Center's projects look at both supply and demand issues. We develop programs to ensure that products, services and information are delivered to the "last mile" while putting in place strategies and tactics that help change risky health behaviors and practices. Our projects also tackle difficult policy challenges that enable better project outcomes. We measure, monitor, research and evaluate our successes—and failures—and we ensure that donor and tax-funded money is spent judiciously and appropriately.

The Center provides the private sector with practical tools for identifying the needs of consumers at the base of the pyramid, high-risk groups and other vulnerable populations, creating value-added health products and services, and then successfully marketing them. We support cross-sector partnerships through our leadership, technical assistance and strategic investments in areas such as technology development and quality assurance, market research, distribution support, financing, advocacy for a favorable regulatory environment, demand generation/public education, and development of effective segmentation through the improved targeting of subsidies.

The Center for Private Sector Health Initiatives currently works in nine countries across Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean, with a diverse set of expert staff both in those countries as well as in our Center headquarters, in Washington, D.C. We manage more than $50 million of contracts and are funded by a variety of donors including the U.S. and German Governments, private foundations, and private, for-profit businesses.

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News and Announcements

CPSHI Job Openings

AED and TACAIDs Host Workshop for Developing BCC Guidelines for HIV Prevention

The AED-TACAIDS workshop aimed to develop BCC guidelines for HIV prevention in Tanzania, specifically focusing on key drivers of the epidemic— high-risk sexual behavior, intravenous drug use, lack of knowledge, concurrent partners, and sexually transmitted infections.

 T-MARC Workshop Examines How to Change Health Behaviors Related to Alcohol Abuse and HIV Risk

T-MARC hosted an innovative three-day BCC training workshop, Behavior Change Communication— Turning Ideas into Action. The workshop's case study "HIV + Alcohol" focused on behavior change to reduce the risk of HIV transmission.

CPSHI Convenes Meeting of Key POUZN players on Scaling Up Zinc with ORT/ORS in Children

Point-Of-Use Water Disinfection and Zinc Treatment Project donors, implementers and researchers gathered to discuss lessons learned and scaling up of pediatric zinc with ORT/ORS.

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