PharmAccess is a group of non-profit organizations dedicated to improving access to quality healthcare in Africa. PharmAccess mobilizes public and private resources for the benefit of doctors and patients through clinical standards and quality improvements, loans for healthcare providers, health insurance, mHealth innovations and operational research.
This integrated approach is made possible by the following organizations:
PharmAccess believes in doing healthcare better.
With a focus on sub-Saharan Africa, we work on improving the whole system so that everyone has access to care when they need it, not just when they can afford it.
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Our activities
Connecting people to affordable healthcare
At PharmAccess, our vision is a world where everybody is connected to affordable healthcare through mobile technology. Mobile technology has disrupted virtually every industry. It has created transparent business models that drastically cut transaction costs while putting the end user at the center.
Crucially, a person with a mobile phone is a person with a voice. With a simple piece of technology in their hands, those who were typically excluded can participate in the types of services and exchanges that many of us take for granted. This is why PharmAccess believes that new digital platforms like M-TIBA hold the key to democratizing healthcare.
PharmAccess International has successfully implemented an innovative quality of care program in Tanzania – the Business of Quality. The four-year project, funded by UKAID – through the Health Development and Innovation Fund, was aimed at improving quality of care, strengthening business performance, and supporting facilities access affordable loans to invest in the provision of better care. Read more
Medical Credit Fund (MCF) PharmAccess Group's non-profit health fund dedicated to providing loans to small and medium-sized healthcare facilities in Africa, has received European backing. The European Investment Bank, the investment arm of the European Union, has signed a USD 5 million (KhSh 514 million) loan agreement with MCF. Read more
In early November architects from across East Africa gathered in Nairobi to attend the first in a series of hospital development workshops. The workshops, entitled, “Improving Quality Healthcare through Hospital Design and Construction,” are exploring through discussion and shared best practice how architecture plays a fundamental role in the provision of quality healthcare. Read more
In late September the United Nations held the Third High Level Meeting on the prevention and control of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in New York. The gathering comes at a critical time. Accelerating the response to address NCDs for the health and well-being of present and future generations is one of the key global health challenges of today. Read more
An innovative pilot that will empower patients to access affordable and quality NCD care with a mobile phone and offers healthcare financing stakeholders a potentially scalable and efficient service model Read more
About PharmAccess
PharmAccess believes in doing healthcare better. With a focus on sub-Saharan Africa, we work on improving the whole system. This means mobilizing private and public resources to get more money into the system, measuring and improving quality, and reaching even the most excluded through simple technologies like the mobile phone.
This approach to healthcare is designed to ensure that everyone has access to better care when they need it, not just when they can afford it.
