Archives for December 2017

Evidence gathering for our application to get co-packaged ORS and Zinc on the WHO Essential Medicines List (EML)

This photo came through yesterday (30-Nov-17) on our project WhatsApp Group. It features Akufuna and Lois, the two Keepers Zambia Foundation staff in Western Province. They are at a health centre and Akufuna is collecting the stock level information for ORS and Zinc since Jan-15. We expect that this survey will provide part of the […]

The impact of co-packaging ORS and zinc – Mongu District, Zambia

[Edited on 1-Oct-19 to include information on how the eight health centres were selected.] The “co-packaging effect” was evident in a dispensing behaviours analysis conducted by ColaLife across health centres in Mongu District, Zambia, in October 2016 and October 2017. In Nov/Dec-17 all health centres in Mongu District were visited (n=30) and stocking information for […]

Paulo Savaget wins IBM Center for Business of Government Award

Paulo Savaget, a Gates Cambridge Scholar, and his supervisor, Steve Evans, have been awarded $20,000 from the IBM Center for The Business of Government to develop a ‘Playbook’, based on our work in Zambia. This Playbook will outline the process for scale-up in countries beyond Zambia. These IBM awards are for new reports on key public […]

WANTED: Two new trustees for ColaLife

ColaLife was founded by Simon Berry and Jane Berry in 2008 as a Company Ltd by Guarantee and became a registered charity in England and Wales in 2011.​ The original board – which is still in place – was formed by a small group of supporters who wanted to see the ColaLife idea get off […]

Top 10 achievements in 2017

2009’s top 10 | 2010’s top 10 | 2011’s  top 10 | 2012’s top 10 | 2013’s top 10 2014’s top 10 | 2015’s top 10 | 2016’s top 10 One of the graphics used to support our Essential Medicines List campaign – see Item 1  Image credit: Simon Berry Here are our Ten Top Achievements for 2017.   […]