Closing the Data Gap: How Innovators Are Helping Reimagine Malaria Care
Data are critical to closing the gap in malaria diagnosis and treatment In 2023, there was an estimated 263 million new cases of malaria and 597,000 deaths globally, 95% of which were in Africa. Unfortunately, many malaria-endemic countries still lack the real-time data infrastructure required to collect, store, analyze, and share timely, accurate information on […]
Feature in The Telegraph: The Healthtech Startup Boom in Africa
A recent feature article in the UK’s The Telegraph spotlighted the role African healthtech innovators are playing by building new tech-driven models to bridge gaps in healthcare access and infrastructure. Based on Salient’s market intelligence report titled Leading Innovations Enabling Health Product Access in Africa, the article spotlights Chefaa, an online pharmacy startup enabling […]
Launching i3 Phase 2: A Bold Leap for African Health Innovation
The Africa Health Tech Summit 2024 in Kigali, Rwanda set the stage for a pivotal moment in African health innovation. Investing in Innovation (i3), a value creation network co-implemented by Salient Advisory alongside our partners at SCIDaR to support the commercialization and scale of health tech supply chain startups in Africa, took center stage […]
The Digital Future of Pharmacy in Africa
In a recent op-ed, published on African Arguments, we made a case for reimagining the future of pharmacy in Africa, focusing on enabling pharmacists play a more impactful frontline role in healthcare delivery that goes beyond dispensing drugs. Across Africa, community pharmacies are often the first—and sometimes only—accessible points of care, particularly in rural and […]
5 considerations for regulating online pharmacies
“We recognize how crucial it is to have the necessary tools to manage and monitor the distribution of medicines through digital channels. Our goal is to leverage the experience of countries who have gone ahead on this journey and avoid the challenges they have faced.” – Dr Yossounon Chabi, D.G. Agence Béninoise du […]
New work to measure the impact of tech-driven health supply chain innovations in Africa
Innovation is great, but show me the impact. Across Africa, there is growing interest from governments, donors, and global health institutions in tech-driven innovations that address critical health supply chain challenges: availability, accessibility, affordability, visibility, and quality of health products. Government entities like the NPHCDA in Nigeria, Kisumu County in Kenya and the MOH in […]
Discover Figorr — The Health Supply Chain Innovator Saving Lives in Nigeria and Beyond
Figorr, a young Nigerian startup in the Investing in Innovation (i3) program, is transforming Africa’s health supply chains with technology that offers end-to-end visibility of health products by monitoring their location, temperature, and humidity in real time. Initially critical during the COVID-19 pandemic for tracking Covid vaccines and reducing wastage in Nigeria, Figorr’s devices […]
Startup Success: New Ways Salient Can Help You Directly
Salient’s mission is to advance the impact of leading healthcare innovations, by providing the healthtech ecosystem market intelligence, advisory and partnership facilitation. This month we’re launching two new services to directly support a limited number of startups in: 1) landing global health partnerships and 2) improving operations for scale. Land global health partnerships In […]
Strengthening Nigeria’s Online Pharmacy Regulations to Expand Access
The recent deployment of digital platforms, such as online pharmacies, in Nigeria, which was accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic, creates a new channel that has the potential to expand access to many essential health commodities and services. Despite the growth in the number of online pharmacies in Nigeria, the regulations and guidelines that govern such […]
Innovating for Impact: Highlights from i3’s 2nd Annual Access to Markets Event
“We can find African solutions for African challenges by bringing together government, industry, and donors to create the scaffolding for entrepreneurs to succeed” Investing in Innovation (i3), a state-of-the-art, pan-African initiative, hosted the second edition of the Access to Markets event to bring together government, industry, and donors to meet with the […]
