Guest Commentary: Beer and Health - A recipe for Africa?
The Graduate Institute Geneva - "A strange new union between health and beer is now set to help Africa to fight HIV, tuberculosis and malaria. The public-private partnership between the World’s second largest brewer Heineken and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria has stirred up a hornet's nest.
Explaining the partnership, the Global Fund’s Director of External Relations, Christoph Benn wrote in a blog that “Heineken will support efforts in countries in Africa where the company is present to improve the effectiveness of the ‘last mile’ distribution, which focuses on ensuring the right goods can reach health care facilities and patients in remote areas” (1). This suggests that the Global Fund is going to benefit from Heineken’s experience in distributing beer to remote areas in African countries." (Photo: Gadi Glogowski/flickr, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)