Workers make portable AgVa ventilators during the lockdown to curb the spread of coronavirus on April 16, 2020 in Noida, India. Sunil Ghosh/Hindustan Times via Getty Images
Summary.
Since the Covid-19 pandemic hit, innovators around the world have developed thousands of novel solutions and practical approaches to this unprecedented global health challenge. About one-fifth of those innovations have come from low- and middle-income countries across sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, and Latin America, according to our analysis of WHO data, and they work to address the needs of poor, marginalized, or excluded communities at the so-called bottom of the pyramid.