Where micro-finance focuses on small loans to individual, low-income women, think of Acumen Fund more like a venture capital fund.

In the case of maternal health care, you look at, well naturally, it's the mother who's the customer, who makes the decisions. But in truth, the mother in many areas, in certain parts of India, the mother has very little decision-making power at all. The real decision-maker is the mother-in-law.

Human beings tend not to spend money on health preventionally. We tend to spend it on top treatment.

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