The Global Health Innovation Grants (GHIG) program focuses on fostering the growth and scale of health-focused innovations and social entrepreneurs in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) through one-year grants. Since 2016, IiH has worked with grantees to identify metrics that align with their project objectives and activities. Analyzing this data, IiH provides an assessment of the portfolio in each cohort, as well as over time, to identify areas for improvement for the program. This case study is one of six from the GHIG9 grantee cohort.
Bive (Fundación Vive con Bienestar) is a Colombian social business that connects rural, underserved, and indigenous communities to timely, affordable, and high-quality health services.
Its traditional business streams have included connecting people to a vast network of private healthcare providers (via a family membership card) and running rural health brigades with providers in that network. For most of its history, its core strengths were not technological. They were community trust, a network of local health workers, and established relationships with health providers. More recently, through a partnership with Pegasi and as part of GHIG9, Bive has begun using artificial intelligence (AI) for efficient population health management (for example, data organization and eligibility identification) combined with automated voice calls, to extend its community-based outreach model in cervical cancer screening.
This case study examines the cervical cancer project and what it suggests for how Bive might develop its model going forward.