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Hema Srinivasan

Hema Srinivasan

Mathematician

Aug 11, 2026

1:31
Back then, tell me what your perception of the toolkit or approaches were, the how, and how that changed with the first volume guarantee.
1:42
So at the time, in HIV, where Chai was doing a lot of really important negotiation and brokering work to really maximize impact, we had built a procurement consortium to improve treatment coverage as quickly as possible.
1:58
You know, we had all seen on TV images of people suffering from AIDS.
2:03
We had seen pharmaceutical companies mobilize to develop highly effective treatments.
2:09
And yet most of the disease burden was in Africa.
2:12
And those treatments in the early days were not getting to Africa at all.
2:16
So there's a really stark access gap.

18 MINS LATER

20:10
That was the first big use of volume guarantees in global health to massively reduce the price of a product and enable access, if I recall.

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