Grand Challenges — Breakthrough Innovations to Reduce the Cost of Severe Acute Malnutrition Treatment
Funds global teams developing system-level innovations that reduce the total cost of treating severe acute malnutrition in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.
This grant is administered by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation under its Grand Challenges program. It funds innovations targeting the system-level cost of treating Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM) in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. SAM affects approximately 14 million children under age 5, with treatment success rates of only 50–60% under current protocols at a cost that systems cannot sustai…
System-level innovations achieving a 20–30%+ reduction in total cost per child treated for SAM independent of RUTF unit price — through logistics optimization, protocol redesign, delivery model innovation, simplified diagnostics, digital decision-support, AI-enabled protocol optimization, or optimization of complicated SAM care pathways. Point-of-care diagnostics, mHealth tools, community health worker enablement, and supply chain technology are within scope.
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