Access to Healthcare Strategy: Innovative Solutions

We start from the position that prevention is always better than cure. To ensure our medicines are used effectively on an ongoing basis by those most in need, it is essential that underserved communities are equipped with sufficient disease awareness, understanding and healthcare infrastructure to support this.

Through our Access to Healthcare Strategy, we want to become a leading partner in the development of integrated, people-centered services to improve health outcomes in low- and middle-income countries. We want to help provide underserved communities across the developing world with sufficient knowledge, expertise and means to ensure their right to health on a continual basis. Our focus is therefore on:

• Education and Awareness Raising: Long-term health and well-being depends on sufficient understanding of certain diseases and early prevention and diagnosis. Educational and awareness campaigns can help promote disease prevention, and increase people’s willingness to access professional health services.
• Disease Management Programs: Some common diseases - such as stroke and diabetes - require a holistic approach to their management. Local partnerships can help provide ongoing and affordable solutions in the training, prevention and treatment of disease.
• E-Health

Some examples of what we are doing:

• Last Mile Initiative: An animal health program focusing on registration, distribution of BI products and corresponding education for Kenyan farmers.
• Angel’s Initiative: A global initiative to increase the number of patients treated in stroke-ready hospitals and to optimize the quality of treatment in all existing stroke centers.
• iSikCure: A subscription free app developed within Making More Health in partnership with Ashoka to connect patients in Kenya with doctors, laboratories, pharmacies and wellness providers, and enable them to pay for the health services received from their mobile phones.