3.1 3.2 3.3 last mile health services - billion asian women empower 25 year rise in life expectancy 2021-1970

core documents : download 14 pages on why Brac received Gates Global Health Award 2004 

FAZLE ABED WAS DESPERATELY DISAPPOINTED IN 1972- he had built 15000 village homes with his life savings and a matching grant from oxfam rated as best they'd seen when he observed 5 or more young women dying a week typically of famine and 10 or more infants dying  from dehydration

so instead of building any more metavillages he searched for community solutions- where possible sustainable village business he could microfranchise to village mothers

fortunately rice practice alumni of borlaug explained how up to 5 times more local rice production making 2.1 rice business microfranchising an obvious business

3.2 para-health franchise Shasthya Shebika (in 2008 forbes reported 68000 brac para health workers reached 80 million villagers - in effect brac is the lowest cost wholesaler  and through its Shebika retailer of the health products it offers)

abed was introduced to barefoot chinese doctors who in turn wanted to know about 3,1 oral rehydration- bangladesh didn't have china's history of medical studies so instead abed invented a doordash of non prescription medicines - the  para-health franchise owner was assigned 30 village homes to visit weekly- the merchandise brac chose for her

over time the prahealth worker became the most trusted person in each group of 300 families on health and Q&A while her microfranchise delivered positive income ie a sustainable livelihood 

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best abed health-alumni interventions  since abed's death 20 dec 2019

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Fazle Hasan Abed on Poverty Alleviation in Bangladesh ...

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Fazle Hasan Abed on Poverty Alleviation in Bangladesh ...

YouTube · World Affairs

9 key moments in this video

From 02:30

Bangladesh's Struggle with Poverty Alleviation

From 04:21

Mortality Rate

From 06:39

Agriculture

From 07:33

The Green Revolution Happened in Asia

From 16:51

School for Training Midwives

From 32:07

Oral Rehydration Therapy

From 35:10

First Bank in Bangladesh To Have Mobile Transfer

From 39:31

Legal Empowerment of the Poor

From 41:11

How Bangladesh Will Confront Global Warming in the Rise of Oceans

three "miraculously human exchanges" empowered health of billion bangladesh and chinese to rise- more generally its hard to see how asia's two thirds of humans lives rose since 1945 without these leaps forward for sustaining families/communities - see also 

3 from 1980 unicef james grant maximised rural network exchanges of bangladesh, china and any tropical nation whose leaders would listen to miracles of vaccination and oral rehydration - further verification check with unicef current ceo henrietta fore

2 chinese americans at east pakistans cholera lab discover oral rehydration - life saver for over third of infants in any rural tropical place; faze abed is asked to work out howw to train every village mother

1 from a non-chinese person's viewpoint Chairman Mao's cultural revolution did extraordinary things - some cruel/bad? but at least 1 brilliantly good- without the idea of barefoot chinese doctors its hard to see how fazle abed would have helped build bangladesh rural health services connecting 90% of the new nations population

https://skeptoid.com/episodes/4259

if you have difficulty with this lesson read harvard martha chen's book a quiet revolution - she was employee number 3 at brac and her book is a deep dive into how brac built foundations of its forst 10 years until sir fazle's first wive ayesha died