African governments are collaborating with tech innovators to strengthen local health supply chains, according to new research, which noted nearly 50 partnerships between health startups and African governments focused on optimising supply chains and improving health outcomes across the continent. Funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and titled “Innovations in Digitising Health Supply Chains in Africa”, the report is the first pan-African landscape of health supply chain innovators on the continent. As a wave of supply chain innovations emerged amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the long-term viability and impact of their business models was unclear. While the pace of new entry has slowed drastically, findings show African governments working with health supply chain innovators on nearly 50 partnerships, leveraging their tech-enabled solutions to resolve long-term challenges around the availability, accessibility, and quality of health products in public health supply chains. “The report offers the first comprehensive overview of tech-enabled health supply chain innovators emerging across Africa.

Source: The North Africa Journal July 28, 2023 12:32 UTC