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 Kenya - Background In 2000, Sustainable Healthcare Enterprise Foundation (SHEF), formerly Cry for the World Foundation (CFW), started a franchised network of essential-medicines outlets that are owned and managed by Kenyan community health workers. The network has since grown to 28 Child and Family Wellness Shops (CFWShops®) in the central Region of Kenya (the provinces of Kirinyaga and Mbeere). SHEF's goal is to establish a fully sustainable network of approximately 200 Kenyan-owned and -operated franchised outlets by the year 2005.
SEAM provides technical assistance, tools, training materials, and managerial support to SHEF. Outlets are run by community health workers who have been trained in drug management, appropriate dispensing, and basic business skills. The outlets are regularly inspected by government health services, and the outlets participate in the distribution of commodities procured under government initiatives such as insecticide-treated bed-nets for the Roll Back Malaria program and condoms for the AIDS prevention program. This provides a good example of how a public-private partnership can work effectively in pharmaceutical distribution. Related Information |
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The franchise system has the full support of the Government of Kenya, and it maintains a positive relationship with health authorities in the districts where it operates.