Project Last Mile

“If one can find a bottle of Coca-Cola anywhere in the world, why not life-saving medicines?”

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Across Africa, governments and donors have made progress in getting medicines into African countries. However, the medicine does not always reach the health facilities where people collect it, and nearly 50 percent of people lack access to these critical medicines. In contrast, a Coca-Cola product is available almost everywhere on the continent.

By leveraging the expertise and network of the Coca-Cola System, Project Last Mile is a pioneering public-private partnership with The Coca-Cola Company and Foundation, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, The Global Fund, and USAID to help improve uptake of life-saving health services and to enable medicines to go to the “last mile” and benefit communities in Africa.  Project Last Mile collaborates with regional Coca-Cola bottlers and suppliers to strengthen public health systems capacity in supply chain by sharing the expertise and network of the Coca-Cola System with the local Ministry of Health (MoH). To date, Project Last Mile has supported work in eight countries in Africa: Ghana, Liberia, Mozambique, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Swaziland, and Tanzania. 

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Project Last Mile 2019 Impact Report

[PDF, 3.8MB]

To learn more about Project Last Mile, its services, and impact, read the 2019 impact report [PDF, 3.8MB].

 

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