
Hema Srinivasan
Mathematician
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Aug 11, 2026
Volume Guarantees and the High-Price, Low-Volume Trap with Hema Srinivasan
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Inder SinghHOST
Back then, tell me what your perception of the toolkit or approaches were, the how, and how that changed with the first volume guarantee.
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1:42Hema SrinivasanGUEST
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.
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2:03Hema SrinivasanGUEST
We had seen pharmaceutical companies mobilize to develop highly effective treatments.
18 MINS LATER

Inder SinghHOST
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.