Basic Utility Vehicles for Rural Transportation

IHI Project Fives Alive! Ghana Project is an ambitious program working to assist Ghana in achieving a goal of reducing  mortality in children under the age of five by 60% by 2015.    The Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) is an independent not-for-profit organization helping to lead the improvement of health care throughout the world.  Founded in 1991 and based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, IHI works to accelerate improvement by building the will for change,  cultivating promising concepts for improving patient care, and helping health care systems put those ideas into action. Funded by the The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, this program is a collaborative effort with the National Catholic Health Service to build capacity for continuous improvement across health systems and to spread the changes being tested in current programs to the rest of the country.  It was launched in July, 2008.  The specific aims and objectives are supported and instituted by two guiding methods, including the Model for Improvement and the IHI Breakthrough Series Collaborative methodology. Every tier of the project helps to ensure the success of the specific interventions that the program is testing. Let's hope that we can introduce the value of BUVs for Health to a program like this that has four waves of funding and implementation.