Suvita

Suvita sends text message reminders to mothers in India to remind them to get their children vaccinated.

Charity Science Health (CSH) merged with Suvita during 2020. This page is awaiting a review following the merger.

What is Charity Science Health's mission?

CSH's mission is to cost-effectively "expand immunization coverage across India."

CSH partners with health systems in India to reach pregnant mothers and other caregivers and sign them up for the text message program.
They work with government systems and NGOs to send text message reminders to program participants.
It costs less than $1 to find participants' phone numbers through existing data collection systems. It costs only 3 cents to send each reminder.

CSH's text message program is informed by research and evidence.
Evidence suggests that text message reminders increase vaccination rates by about 7%.
Text message reminders are inexpensive and easy to scale --- that is, they can easily reach an increasing number of people over time.
In 2016 and 2017, CSH received approximately $550,000 in the form of two incubation grants from GiveWell.
In 2019, Open Philanthropy gave CSH a $214,425 "exit grant" to support its operations through May 2020, allowing it to seek other sources of funding.

In India, only about 65% of children received all recommended vaccinations. As a result, approximately 1.2 million people die of preventable diseases each year.
CSH sends text messages to mothers in India to remind them to get their children vaccinated.
CSH is a GiveWell-incubated nonprofit that grew out of Charity Entrepreneurship.