Axmed

We believe access to medicines should be equal for all. We bring an innovative marketplace to empower emerging markets to access medicines more competitively.

Imagine a world where critical medicines are within reach, affordable, and synonymous with quality, no matter where you are. That's the world we're building with our unique, demand-aggregation model that unites healthcare providers across LMICs. At the heart of our identity is a resolute commitment: to build a future where geography and income never stand between any individual and life-saving medicines. Our platform isn't merely a space for transactions, we unlock affordable access to medicines by aggregating demand across healthcare providers. We also help manufacturers build a sustainable and reliable global access strategy. Our business focuses on LMICs and strengthens the purchasing power of these markets to ensure the supply of cost-effective, high-quality medicines. We partner exclusively with authorized, high-quality pharmaceutical companies and certified caregivers to accelerate access to medicines.

09/03/2025

A major step forward for medicine access and patient care in East Africa!

Today, we're proud to announce a strategic partnership between Axmed and @ Tasa Pharma to enhance access to essential medicines and strengthen the stability of supply and pricing of quality sterile injectables across East Africa. Historically, erratic supply chain for quality-assured products has disrupted patient care.

Tasa Pharma is a world-class sterile manufacturing facility based in Nairobi. With significant investment in Kenya's pharmaceutical sector, Tasa Pharma embodies the future of regional manufacturing in Africa.

Through this partnership, we'll combine Tasa Pharma’s local manufacturing strength with Axmed’s digital procurement and logistics platform to deliver:

⚙️ More consistent supply
💸 More stable pricing
🌍 Medicine security
🏥 Health system resilience

This partnership directly targets two of the biggest barriers to medicine access in LMICs: supply chain disruption and pricing volatility that disrupts patient care. This sets a new benchmark for what’s possible when local production meets system-level infrastructure.

We're grateful to the Tasa Pharma team for hosting us in Nairobi. The next chapter starts now!

08/29/2025

🟣 There’s no equity without access.

At the Women in Data Summit 2025, hosted by the President’s Advisor on Women’s Rights Hon. Harriette Chiggai, Axmed's conversation focused on one urgent gap:

💊 A 70% shortfall in medicine supply across Kenya, as reported by KEMSA.

This is a planning, budgeting, financial flow, supply chain, and logistics challenge — and community representatives shared how it’s costing lives.

Axmed’s Global Head of Corporate & Public Affairs Temitayo Erogbogbo joined partners including Ferring Pharmaceuticals, inSupply Health and to spotlight what’s missing — and how we’re addressing it:

🧭 Mapping demand and supply through the Axmed Marketplace
🏭 Linking procurers to regional manufacturers — including maternity drapes now moving across borders
📊 Equipping decision-makers with the data they need to act, fast

We're also proud to work together on advancing solutions championed by Office of The Women Rights Advisor, including collaborations with Bungoma and Nandi counties, KEMSA, and others. Our 1:1 matching fund, supported by the Gates Foundation, catalyzes procurement, and accelerates access to maternal, newborn, and child health products.

Better data doesn’t just describe the problem. It moves the solution.

📸 Swipe through for key moments from the summit!

08/26/2025

🎥 "Speed, speed, speed."

Before partnering with Axmed, responses from manufacturers took too long. Now?

"Their response is very quick. They’ve helped us serve our clients better." – Alexander Mathara, Procurement Officer, Centrale Humanitaire Medico-Pharmaceutique (CHMP)

In our latest customer voice feature, Alexander shares a challenge many know too well: slow response times, high prices, and fragmented procurement.

Based in Kenya, CHMP supports humanitarian organizations globally with door-to-door supply chain solutions - and needed a platform built for scale and urgency.

That’s where the Axmed Marketplace comes in:

📦 Aggregated procurement = better pricing and higher purchasing power
📊 Real-time quotes from vetted global and local suppliers — all in one place
🚚 End-to-end support: logistics, tracking, and supply chain visibility

Explore the platform 👉 https://bit.ly/4kdkX6H

08/20/2025

🔁 Building for impact, not just infrastructure

Our tech team just dropped a behind-the-scenes look at what it really takes to build the core infrastructure of a health-tech platform for low-resource settings, and why we’re choosing performance, scale, and reliability over complexity.

From reducing server response time by 400% to rewriting entire services to serve our partners faster, this is infrastructure that shows up where it matters most: in procurement, supply chains, and access to essential medicines across low- and middle-income countries.

🛠️ Thoughtful engineering decisions
🌍 Context-aware architecture
⚡ Tools that scale with urgency

Read how we’re building a platform that moves medicine — not just code.

Our latest blog, authored by CTO Mattia Albergante details our journey to rebuild Axmed’s infrastructure for scalability and security: https://medium.com//our-platform-infrastructure-how-we-shaped-it-and-how-we-manage-it-4851fdcd4f9a

08/14/2025

From tools to transformation.

Nearly 1.3 million calibrated obstetric drapes are being delivered across East and West Africa, including 120,000 en route currently from Stellenbosch to Addis Ababa.

But this isn’t just about shipments. It’s about shifting how care is delivered.

The calibrated drape, part of the WHO-backed EMOTIVE bundle, tackles a stubborn gap in maternal health: the failure to detect postpartum haemorrhage in time.

In too many settings, visual estimates of blood loss still guide decisions. This calibrated drape, a very simple yet highly effective tool, changes that — turning guesswork into data, and delay into life-saving action.

It’s a small intervention with system-wide impact.

At Axmed, we’re proud to scale these kinds of innovations across borders, alongside other maternal, newborn, and child health (MNCH) interventions.

Through impact-oriented partnerships deeply grounded in equity, access pricing, and operational excellence, we're building delivery systems that work.

Because better tools aren’t enough if they don’t reach the people who need them.

08/11/2025

On the ground in West Africa | Our General Counsel, Alejandro Bes, reflects on two powerful weeks of learning, alignment, and momentum-building across Ghana and Nigeria!

From regulatory collaboration with National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, PCN , and Presidential Initiative for Unlocking the Healthcare Value Chain (PVAC), to visits with standout manufacturers like Emzor Pharmaceutical Industries Limited, Fidson Healthcare Plc, SWIPHA, Tobinco Pharmaceuticals Limited, and Atlantic Lifesciences Ltd, the message was clear:

Healthcare equity isn't just a goal - it's an achievable reality when the right partners come together.

As we grow our presence in West Africa, we’re proud to work alongside partners leading the charge on local manufacturing and sustainable, equitable supply.

Huge thanks to our amazing partners, including Clinton Health Access Initiative, LifeNet International & Catholic Health Service Trust, Ghana, and to so many others who aren’t tagged here but are just as vital.

Your dedication is building a stronger, fairer supply of essential health products. We couldn’t do it without you.

📍 Read more from Alex’s reflections here: https://lnkd.in/dYudDt2z

08/04/2025

🍼 World Breastfeeding Week is a reminder: The first 1,000 days of life shape a child’s future and the wellbeing of mothers.

But too often, that future is defined by where they’re born.

It’s one of many ways to nourish a child and protect their health — but not the only one. This week is a reminder that caring for a newborn starts with caring for the mother.🤰

At Axmed, we’re working to strengthen maternal health systems so that every woman has access to the medicines, supplies, and care she needs to recover, heal, and make informed choices about how she supports her baby’s first months of life.

We’re proud to be driving global solutions on maternal, newborn, and child health (MNCH):

💊 25M+ doses delivered to high-need MNCH programs
🌍 20+ countries reached, including Nigeria and Sudan
⚡ Support for frontline providers ensuring access to oxytocin, antibiotics, and IV fluids that protect mothers and newborns at birth

💬 Let’s keep pushing for a world where care reaches every woman, every newborn, everywhere. .

World Health Organization (WHO), UNICEF, PMNCH, MSD for Mothers, UNFPA

07/28/2025

92% of maternal deaths happen in low-and middle-income countries. At Every Pregnancy and Axmed, we believe this injustice has to stop. Today.

So we're joining together to close the access to medicines gap in the most hard-to-reach communities. Beginning this month, Every Pregnancy partners will have increased purchasing power and the ability to provide mothers and babies with the highest standard of care thanks to Axmed's pioneering B2B marketplace.

If any of the stats in this carousel surprised you, please share them. A world where every pregnancy is safe is within reach if we work collectively.

07/24/2025

🗞️ Global spotlight on maternal health equity!

Following the announcement of our new partnership with Every Pregnancy , global media is shining a light on one urgent truth:

💡 No mother should die giving life. No newborn should be denied care because of where they’re born.

From Washington to Nairobi, outlets are covering how this partnership is tearing down systemic barriers — delivering affordable, life-saving medicines to mothers and babies affected by conflict and crisis.

And the response has been powerful:

📣 700+ media articles
🌍 200 million+ potential reach
✉️ 4,000 journalists pitched

Because access to medicines shouldn’t be a privilege. This story belongs on the front page — and this week, it was.

🔗 Read the press release: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/axmed-and-every-pregnancy-announce-transformative-partnership-to-enhance-access-to-affordable-essential-medicines-for-mothers-and-babies-affected-by-conflict-and-crisis-302506612.html?tc=eml_cleartime

🎥 Watch our announcement video: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/PWcgt9daKCQ

Swipe through for featured headlines and global media highlights, or browse a few below:

🗞️ https://apnews.com/press-release/pr-newswire/axmed-and-every-pregnancy-announce-transformative-partnership-to-enhance-access-to-affordable-essential-medicines-for-mothers-and-babies-affected-by-conflict-and-crisis-7470c1306c15efbd33fb1117c753fe03

🗞️ https://healthtech-pulse.com/latest-healthtech-news/?rkey=20250717LN30829&filter=27827

🗞️ ww.healthcarebusinesstoday.com/latest-healthcare-business-news/?rkey=20250717LN30829&filter=28047

🗞️ https://fintech-pulse.com/latest-finance-news/?rkey=20250717LN30829&filter=26951

🗞️ https://finance.yahoo.com/news/axmed-every-pregnancy-announce-transformative-110000618.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9ldS1hcHAuY2lzaW9uLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAACEtLmCFfoewo98kGZP0DtVpz_Bir4Um-l7Y_bDTRqErBv8jidQzMvoVcA3Nn1EX3vMF3nesDvCDoxMKxEi-uzjU4Ou7GvGUEd_WRTRMphU1RmIh74xo8_st9pnBePQy6a2PHfALhh1A6FrZxL3oPO-e9nre5XZf-qVUFgaXeEzc

🗞️ https://www.wlns.com/business/press-releases/cision/20250717LN30829/axmed-and-every-pregnancy-announce-transformative-partnership-to-enhance-access-to-affordable-essential-medicines-for-mothers-and-babies-affected-by-conflict-and-crisis/

07/21/2025

Vaccines don’t save lives. Vaccination does.

But getting proven vaccines to the people who need them most still depends on fragmented systems, missing infrastructure, and broken delivery models.

Our latest white paper authored by Liz van Erp asks the hard question: What’s holding us back—and what will it take to unlock the full potential of vaccines?

🚨 Insights from across the access ecosystem
📦 Lessons from the field
🧩 A framework for smarter, faster, more equitable delivery

👉 Read the full paper here — https://lnkd.in/d7x4JUpm

07/17/2025

🚨 Big news announced today! Axmed and Every Pregnancy are joining forces — in a partnership that will transform access to medicines for mothers and babies living through conflict and crisis.

In too many places, essential care costs twice as much — or doesn’t exist at all.

92% of maternal deaths happen in low- and middle-income countries.

We’re here to change that.

🌍 20+ countries
💊 Affordable, quality medicines
⚡ Tech-enabled, community-powered delivery

Because no mother should die giving life.

And no newborn should be denied a future because of broken systems.

This is equity in action.

🔗 Read the press release: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/axmed-and-every-pregnancy-announce-transformative-partnership-to-enhance-access-to-affordable-essential-medicines-for-mothers-and-babies-affected-by-conflict-and-crisis-302506612.html?tc=eml_cleartime

🎥 Watch our announcement video: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/PWcgt9daKCQ

07/14/2025

Inside the Code: Q2 Edition!

How do you build a tech stack that keeps up with public health delivery?

This quarter, we rewired the data model foundations of the Axmed platform: improving the performance of the services powering our marketplace, rolling out new tools, and laying the groundwork for smarter procurement at scale.

🧱 A rebuilt backend for faster development and cleaner architecture
📊 New workflows for transaction-level approvals and visibility
🛠️ More control in the hands of buyers and suppliers
🚀 Designed for scale, speed, and data-driven insights

In our latest Inside the Code update, CTO Mattia Albergante breaks down what’s new, what’s next, and why good architecture is essential to global access.

Read the full blog: https://medium.com//our-medicine-data-model-refactoring-0f4c1b0b2f8d

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