Archives for October 2018

Zambia takes on Kit Yamoyo – the final Learning and Steering Group

A landmark: on 6-Sep-18, almost seven years to the day since we moved to Zambia to make a simple diarrhoea treatment as ubiquitous as Coca-Cola, 27 people from 20 key Zambian projects and organisations came to discuss Kit Yamoyo – the kit of life. With over 75 people on our final report mailing list, it […]

Public vs Private Sector distribution – Learning from COTZ, KYTS-ACE and KYTS-LUSAKA

Commercial co-pack (Kit Yamoyo) and the government-branded co-pack Coca-Cola gets everywhere – life saving medicines don’t. This was the observation – somewhat naive but also headline-grabbing – that inspired us to investigate private sector distribution of ORS and Zinc for diarrhoea. The results from our first trial to develop the private sector – The ColaLife […]