​Medicine for Africa Founder and CEO (Centre Left) Meeting with Ministry of Health Officials. Ndeke House, Lusaka © Medicines for Africa

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Quality medicines targeting a greater part of societal burden of disease continue to be unaffordable to most African countries and patients.  

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Our mission
To sustainably improve access to quality medicines not supported by donors at prices affordable to countries and patients.

We contribute to SDG3.8

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Our vision
To achieve reliable, viable and sustainable medical supply chains capable of consistently serving the treatment needs of entire national populations.

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What we do

We provide a service that improves the availability of critical treatments that are needed to meet the health needs of entire populations.

By reducing the cost barriers to buying quality medicines as prices affordable to countries and patients.

​Because we believe that vital quality medicines should be available to all.

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Our principles

1. We create economies of scale balancing cost and quality.​
2. We develop partnerships that maximise impact and create shared value.
3. We use quality as a primary criteria for selecting suppliers. 
4. ​We add to what is being done to improve efficiency and sustainability. ​​
5. We are socially responsible, independent and accountable.
​6. We achieve clear measurable results and evaluate impact.​

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Our Impact

As a result of our work removing price barriers that increase the cost of essential medicines, we enable countries to treat significantly more people with the same budget to ensure that quality medicines are consistently available so that they are in stock when needed, near to where they are needed, and cost is not a barrier to their access by patients.