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Assessing Feasibility and Readiness for Cargo Drones in Health Supply Chains

Assessing Feasibility and Readiness for Cargo Drones in Health Supply Chains

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, or drones, have garnered an increasing amount of interest and investment within the international development and humanitarian spaces. Common applications in these contexts include mapping and imaging, monitoring, post-disaster relief, search and rescue, and health delivery. From floods and earthquakes to refugee camps, the imaging applications are numerous and widely deployed. Health delivery, in contrast, remains an underdeveloped area of work, as the technology for cargo drones is still rapidly evolving, often prohibitively expensive, and poses security and regulatory challenges that drones for imaging do not. Donor agencies have unique and at times competing objectives that tend to limit collaboration and options to pool funding in support of any singular activity. Moreover, the number of development and humanitarian organizations with on-the-ground drone experience is limited to less than a handful of implementers. However, this is changing.


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