What we do
Medicines for Africa strengthens medicine safety by connecting those responsible for shaping, regulating, delivering, and using medicines.
We bring together:
- Regulators
- Manufacturers
- Healthcare professionals
- Patients
- Communities
- Researchers
- Development partners
to identify risks, generate actionable intelligence, and coordinate solutions that reduce medication-related harm.
Our work ensures that patient experiences and frontline realities help inform decisions, policies, and actions throughout the medicines ecosystem.
Our Strategy
Everything we do is organised around four interconnected pillars:
Awareness
Helping stakeholders recognise medicine safety risks before harm occurs.
You cannot prevent what you cannot recognise.
Prevention
Reducing the likelihood of medicine-related harm before it reaches patients.
Prevent risks before they become harm.
Detection
Identifying medicine safety concerns as early as possible through stronger surveillance, reporting, and frontline intelligence.
Detect risks early to protect patients sooner.
Action
Supporting timely, coordinated responses that reduce harm and strengthen patient safety.
Knowledge only creates value when it leads to action.
Our Operating Model
Awareness → Prevention and Detection → Action
This framework guides how we contribute to reducing medication-related harm.
Awareness helps stakeholders recognise risks.
Prevention and Detection help identify and reduce threats before harm occurs.
Action ensures that risks lead to meaningful intervention and improved outcomes for patients.
Together, these pillars strengthen medicine safety and advance patient safety across Africa.