reach52 provides affordable, accessible healthcare to communities where traditional services don't reach, making healthcare go further so every community can thrive
Main beneficiary countries:Philippines - Cambodia
reach52 Programmatic Approach
reach52 is a social enterprise that delivers affordable and accessible healthcare, driven by our purpose ‘to make healthcare go further, so every community can thrive’. reach52 radically transforms service delivery models for primary care services in rural and remote areas of LMICs using a digital public health approach. They are building next generation healthcare systems for the 52% of the world who still lack access to essential healthcare services. They partner with governments, multi-laterals, non-profits, and the private sector to make healthcare solutions go further.
They are headquartered in Singapore, with 35 staff across Cambodia, Philippines, India, and UK. In the 3 years since their inception, they have engaged more than 70,000 residents and 1,000 health care workers (HCWs) in 400 partner-communities with significant scale-up now underway. They have formal partnerships to implement access-oriented programs for major multinational pharmaceutical companies, insurers and medical technology firms.
Sector: Industrial: Startups, enterprises, etc.
Country of origin: Philippines
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3.5 billion people on our planet lack access to Universal Health Coverage (World Bank, World Health Organization, 2018). There is a lack of health professionals in South East Asia, and they are concentrated in urban areas. The Philippines and Cambodia have around 80% out-of-pocket payments for healthcare, as do many other LMICs. Essential products and services are often too expensive for much of the population. In addition to financial barriers, the time to travel to traditional primary health facilities is often more costly than the medicine or health service itself – adding to the burden of lower-income communities.
The approach addresses primary healthcare access across a broad range of conditions and illnesses among remote populations, with specific focus on: communicable disease; non-communicable disease; maternal and child health. reach52 also works to address cross-cutting issues of out-of-pocket payments through innovative health financing and insurance, and access to medicines. This is accomplished through use of community-integrated peer worker networks; innovative supply-chain management strategies; and an offline-first mHealth platform. As a result, they facilitate ‘last-mile’ availability of affordable medicines; micro-insurance, OTC products; and screening/diagnostic services; along with the extension of existing-but-centralised government services.
Their model enables a precision, data driven localised approach, which sees targeted interventions developed for each community. These approaches are based on the analytics of datasets comprised of detailed individual-level health profiles of each resident. reach52 provides a last-mile extension of centralised healthcare infrastructure: maximising the efficiency of government primary care clinics and offering affordable private sector products to combat the traditional barriers of physical and financial healthcare access.
The reach52 approach is leveraged by its leading edge, offline-capable digital health tools. Its suite of technology is as follows:
reach52 implements an integrative, inclusive and innovative approach through:
Furthermore, reach52 works with three stakeholder groups:
reach52 was founded as a social impact enterprise to address the sustainability challenges which are endemic to typical NGOs’ funding lifecycles. Being 100% reliant on donor funding prevents recipient organisations from engaging in meaningful long-term planning; imposes top-down priorities that are often misaligned with local needs; and creates time-limited gains, which frequently regress once funding priorities shift. To address this challenge, reach52’s last-mile marketplace model provides a sustainable revenue stream, both for local staff, and for core program activities. This approach has helped reach52 sustain their existing work with no reliance on grants for the past four years.
reach52 is making healthcare go further, so every community can thrive.
Health professional training - Information, education and communication for behaviour change (IEC) - Patient monitoring and medical data - Financial access to care, microinsurance
170000 Number of beneficiaries since launch
50000 Number of users per Year
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Industrial: Startups, enterprises, etc.
Industrial: Startups, enterprises, etc.
Industrial: Startups, enterprises, etc.
Organizational: Communities, public authorities, NGOs, associations, foundations, etc.
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