# Low-Cost Women's Health Initiatives Zubaida Bai's Gives an Important Speech On Women's Health By Mishal Omar | Published 2017-04-19 | Keynote Trends Source: Trend Hunter, https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/speech-on-womens-health References: [youtube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rR4AE8WSwFA) & [d-lab.mit.edu](https://d-lab.mit.edu/scale-ups/clean-birth-kit) Zubaida Bai's speech on women's health outlines her own venture into providing low-cost birth kits for women and girls around the world, as well as the importance of investing in the health and empowerment of women and girls. In creating the Clean Birth Kit in a Purse, Bai consulted not only experts and medical health professionals, but the women who would be using the kit to help deliver babies. The consulting and product development process resulted in the creation of a $3 kit that minimizes infection through the use of a blood absorbing sheet, a surgical scalpel, a clamp, a bar of soap, surgical gloves and a cloth to wipe the baby clean. All of these products are packaged in a purse that is to be gifted to the mother once she delivers her baby – a symbol of prosperity to go along with her safe and healthy birth. Zubaida Bai's speech on women's health speaks to the potential significance of [low-cost interventions](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/healthybaby1) in aiding impoverished women around the world. ## Trend Insights (Trend Hunter) - Score: 1.9/10 - Popularity: 12% | Activity: 37% | Freshness: 8% - Audience gender: 30% men, 70% women - Primary generations: Gen Z, Gen Alpha, Millennial, Gen X - Top markets: North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa ## Categories [Trend Hunter](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends) > [Keynote Trends](https://www.trendhunter.com/keynotetrends) > [Innovation Trends](https://www.trendhunter.com/innovationtrends) ## Key Themes ### What's Driving This Trend - **Low-cost Birth Kits:** Disruptive innovation opportunity: Develop affordable yet effective birth kits for women in resource-limited settings. - **Empowering Women and Girls:** Disruptive innovation opportunity: Create initiatives focused on investing in the health and empowerment of women and girls globally. - **Consulting User Insights:** Disruptive innovation opportunity: Emphasize user-centric design process by consulting the target users for product development. ### Who This Affects Most - **Medical Supplies and Equipment:** Disruptive innovation opportunity: Explore manufacturing and distributing low-cost medical supplies and equipment, specifically targeted at women's health needs. - **Maternal and Child Health:** Disruptive innovation opportunity: Develop comprehensive programs addressing maternal and child health in low-resource settings through innovative solutions. - **Social Impact Entrepreneurship:** Disruptive innovation opportunity: Foster social entrepreneurship in creating sustainable and impactful solutions for women's health and empowerment. ## Related on Trend Hunter - [Maternal Mortality-Reducing Kits](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/mommas-kit.md) - [Affordable Eco-friendly FemCare](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/periodhealth-femalehealth-pregnancycare-femalehygiene.md) - [Period Poverty Initiatives](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/period-promise.md) - [Antibacterial Menstrual Cups](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/bfree-cup.md) - [AI-Assisted Women’s Health Platforms](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/pinky-promise.md) - [Empowerment Beauty Kit Launches](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/empowerment-beauty-kit.md) - [Menstrual Health Day Initiatives](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/menstrual-health-day.md) - [Charitable Hygiene Supply Initiatives](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/purse-project.md) - [Health-Supporting Female Plumbers](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/world-continence-week.md)