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Living Goods operates Avon-like networks of village-based mobile health entrepreneurs that combine the latest and best practices from the worlds of microfinance, franchising, and public health to create the first truly sustainable system for defeating diseases of poverty. Living Goods’ health entrepreneurs reduce illness and death by significantly improving access to and adoption of simple, proven health interventions. LG is also a powerful engine of economic development, improving livelihoods by providing women a reliable source of income as Health Promoters by keeping wage earners healthy and productive, and by averting costly medical treatments. LG plans to scale rapidly in East Africa and replicate broadly across the developing world. LG operates in joint venture with BRAC in Uganda and has a waiting list of multi-national NGOs who want to partner to replicate the LG model in other countries. Future expansion includes extending the Living Goods brand into micro franchise businesses in water, energy, and agriculture.