Venture Strategies for Health and Development is a nonprofit organization working to improve the health and well-being of people in low resource countries, by (1) reducing barriers that inhibit women from having access to options about their childbearing; (2) supporting the availability of promising health technologies that have potential for large scale impact around the world; and (3) increasing understanding of the feasibility of slowing population growth within a voluntary, human rights framework.

At the same time we are redefining how a U.S. nonprofit working internationally should function, and what it should be able to achieve by leveraging donor funds.

Government health services frequently do not have the capacity to reach most of their low-income populations. The sad reality is that in developing countries the poorer people are, the higher percentage of their health care is paid for out of their own pockets. Often the products they need to achieve better health are not available to them at affordable prices.

We are working with medical leaders, government officials and pharmaceutical manufacturers around the world to find ways to make high quality, low cost, off-patent products available to low income people through market distribution systems.