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Innovation Can Save Lives

Innovation comes in many forms, from brilliant technology breakthroughs in Silicon Valley to less flashy advances like a simpler way to deliver essential products. In many cases, even a low-tech innovation can improve health care in a life-changing way. All you need is a new perspective on an old problem.

That is how Project Last Mile came to pass. The Global Fund - investing nearly $4 billion a year to accelerate the end of AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria -- was faced with a perplexing question: if you can deliver a bottle of Coca-Cola virtually anywhere in the world, why not life-saving medicines?

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