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We are a self-sustaining social enterprise that provides quality low-cost treatments  needed by African people in a sustainable way.

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​We contribute to SDG3.8 to improve access to affordable quality medicines and vaccines.

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​​We fill a specific neglected gap that exists outside donor priorities

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• Treatments for health problems not supported by donors remain  too costly for governments to buy and create treatment programmes in countries.
• When medicines are not available in the public sector, most people pay for medicines  out of pocket and pay even higher prices in the private sector. 
• Expensive medicines push millions of people deeper into poverty. Millions more go without treatment and may need even more expensive interventions and  lose economic productivity.​​​

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Our Mission
To improve access to quality affordable medicines in a sustainable way using pooled procurement to generate savings in the short term and strengthen national procurement infrastructure over time.

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Vision
To achieve resilient medicines procurement supply chains capable of consistently providing affordable quality assured medicines for wider population health problems in a sustainable way.

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What we do

We correct the anomaly that outside of donor-supported areas such as chronic illness, most medicines used within countries are purchased by governments quite inefficiently at very high cost.  We consolidate demand using a proven approach that is self-sustaining, create savings in the short-term and strengthens procurement infrastructure in the long-term. 

We do the following;

• Improve selection and use of cost effective treatments.
• Pool country needs to increase volumes.​
• Buy  quality medicines cost-effectively.​
• Support improvements to procurement and supply chain infrastructure.

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Creating shared value and partnering for maximum impact ​

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• ​Our partnerships are driven by shared value and the aspirations of countries to create lasting impact.
• ​We aspire to be a trusted partner of choice for health authorities seeking to buy quality medicines cost-effectively.

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A balanced approach to pricing and quality

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• We seek to achieve quality, affordability and sustainability. Quality is our primary criteria for selecting suppliers.

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Our founding principles

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1. Create shared value to ensure stakeholder commitment.
2. Address neglected needs with a sustainable solution.
3. Create economies of scale to reduce cost without compromising on quality.​
4. Reduce current medicines procurement inefficiencies, not add to them.​
5. Collaborate with countries and partners to strengthen existing procurement infrastructure, not replace them. ​​
6. Achieve clear measurable results such as the number of people treated and lives saved.​
7. Operate in an ethical, socially responsible, accountable and independent manner.

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Meet the founder

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Our independent Board of Directors provide oversight to our work supported by an advisory board.

Dr Lenias Hwenda

Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Lenias' career focus on improving access to medicines was influenced by growing up during the peak of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. She  spent her early career as a vaccine development scientist at the University of Oxford before coming to Geneva where she worked as a diplomat in the UN on multilateral health policy. Her policy work involved high-level negotiations of solutions to  health challenges of global concern including poor access to medicines and vaccines and weak health systems and supply chains. Lenias also worked as an external expert to the WHO Medicines Pre-qualification Programme supporting medicines manufacturers in India, China and Africa to improve the quality of medicines manufacturing. 

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