Online pharmacies have the potential to improve product delivery at scale across the African continent.
But to harness their benefits in sub-Saharan Africa, they must be well regulated.
Read some key recommendations in today's #NHWPost
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I've raised over $4mm for my first startup in Nairobi.
It was a slog.
Now I work with teams that are helping to drive more investment to African healthcare startups.
A thread on the pain points we are hearing so far from the perspective of entrepreneurs:
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The health sector in Nigeria is seeing very gradual disruption in digital innovations!!!
In this piece, @mcdeelaw highlights the importance of digital innovation in healthcare to boost access to healthcare services & delivery.
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Estimates at the end of '17 were that the Nigerian e-commerce market was worth ~$13B, with over 300K orders made daily
Our team and @caring_palms were curious about whether this growth in recent years could also support an online pharmacy
#OnlinePharmacyViability
We surveyed 907 people over 2 months and their demographics are detailed below:
A fair mix of women and men,
most people with tertiary education |
#OnlinePharmacyViability
@nighealthwatch@NigeriaInfoAbj@docneto @DoctooraHealth @caring_palms@waledash@HealthTechNG@ProfOsinbajo@NOIPolls This final image is our favorite and begins to answer the question around identifying the target market.
off this data, you could make the assumption that Women aged 18-25 who are Entrepreneurs and live on Lagos island are most likely to purchase drugs from an online pharmacy
The following tweets summarize our findings from the #OnlinePharmacyViability survey
63% of respondents preferred online drug purchases to in person purchases at the pharmacy
@nighealthwatch@NigeriaInfoAbj@docneto @DoctooraHealth @caring_palms@waledash@HealthTechNG@ProfOsinbajo@NOIPolls we acknowledge the limitations of this report: sample size, location
we also understand that there is still work to do to understand the barriers in place that prevent these optimistic survey results into actual online orders for online pharmacy companies
but this is a start..