The Health and Market Development Working Group (HAMED) was formed to address the challenge of health access among vulnerable populations, including HIV- and AIDS-affected communities. HAMED linked microenterprise development practitioners, public health professionals and policymakers to create strategies to integrate programs for economic strengthening. This Working Group spanned four years and created several learning products, including:

• Partnership Planning for HIV & AIDS and Microenterprise Development
• Paving the Path to Savings – Advancing the Savings-Led Approach in Communities Affected by HIV & AIDS
• Learning the ABCs of OVCs
• The SEEP Network Guidelines for Microenterprise Development in HIV and AIDS-Impacted Communities: Supporting Economic Security and Health:
  • Book 1 | For Public Health Professionals
  • Book 2 | For Microenterprise Development Practitioners
  • Book 3 | Policy Makers: Donors, Strategic Planners, and Advocates
• Strategies for HIV and Microenterprise Programming
• Intervention with Microfinance for AIDS and Gender Equity, South Africa
• The Kibara Mission Hospital HIV Project, Tanzania | Phase II: Savings and Internal Lending Communities
• The Kupfuma Ishungu Rural Microfinance Project, Zimbabwe: A Self-managed, Village Savings and Lending Scheme
• Children, Communities, and Care (PC3) Program, Ethiopia: A "Livelihood Development" Approach
• Better Choices for Children: Community Grants in Mozambique
• Aflatoun’s Child Social and Financial Education for Children in Mozambique, An Emerging Initiative
• Coffee Break Webinars:
  • Health Microinsurance
  • Financing for Health Practitioners
  • Health Provider Linkages

Donors: USAID