Barclays and GlaxoSmithKline in partnership to "increase access to healthcare and improve economic livelihoods across Africa"
"Barclays Pioneers: Improving Lives in Africa", 21 Sept 2016
The partnership brings together the skills and expertise of a bank and healthcare company to develop and test new models that will increase access to healthcare and improve economic livelihoods across Africa. In Zambia, the partnership has set up a new social enterprise...to promote healthcare and sell health impact products into underserved communities...This partnership is a great example of how Barclays has worked to address some of the biggest challenges facing the African continent: joblessness, poverty, rising inequality and exclusion from access to financial services... [I]t is the first time that two multinational companies, from quite different and heavily regulated sectors, have come together to work in this way...