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- EIN 81-4618222
- (650) 308-6861
- 548 Market St San Francisco CA 94104-5401 USA
- www.maishameds.org
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Causes: International, International Development
Mission: A committed group with deep healthcare in east africa, and technology expertise to drive change in the region.
Programs: Were working to make quality medicines affordable for the 2. 5 billion patients worldwide who access primary health care at their local drug shop. Not long ago, we started with app that tracked medication sales and inventory at these drug shops and clinics. Now we are moving into medication supply chains, partnering with suppliers to ensure that effective medicines are stocked in pharmacies across east africa, and that they have the working capital to optimize their shops. Our software is used by hundreds of pharmacies in africa to support hundreds of thousands of patients each year. For the people who use our software, it represents a way of tracking business decisions and accessing deals and working capital. For patients, we help strengthen supply chains and ensure that the medicine that they buy will be affordable and consistently high quality, in a setting where 1 in 10 products is counterfeit or substandard. Maisha meds was first built by a multidisciplinary team at stanford university that is passionate about supporting the health sector in east africa. Our team is based in kenya and has funding from stanford universitys biodesign program and center for innovation in global health as well as d-prize, the unreasonable institute in east africa, the bill & melinda gates foundation, mercks digital ehealth accelerator in nairobi, giz, and the dioraphte foundation. Maisha meds scaled to 110 pharmacies, researched and developed process for reordering medicines, launched health tips process in 2017.