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.

11/18/2025

Looking back at - and looking ahead.

Earlier this month, the global family planning community gathered in Bogotá at a pivotal moment. Demand is rising, budgets are tightening, and the need to rethink how health systems are built and sustained has never been more pressing.

Across multiple sessions, the Axmed team shared perspectives on how constraint can be a catalyst for reform. Here's a final recap:

🔹 Temitayo Erogbogbo, Global Head of Corporate and Public Affairs, opened the week with a call for better alignment across sectors. He spoke about the need to mobilize domestic resources differently, enable local markets to function, and design funding models that bring in other forms of capital beyond donor aid.

🔹 Sofia Radley-Searle, COO & Co-Founder, joined the Financing Spotlight Plenary to share how the current liquidity crunch is forcing a shift. She spoke about how governments are moving toward coordinated, digital-first procurement systems that stretch budgets further. The Axmed platform supports this shift by reducing costs, improving visibility, and enabling smarter purchasing.

Throughout the week, one message stood out: disruption can drive change. But it requires shared tools, strong coordination, and a clear commitment to doing more with the resources we already have.

📸 Swipe through for scenes from Bogotá and thank you to all our partners and peers who continue to push the conversation forward.

11/12/2025

Automating with purpose. Scaling with precision.

As the Axmed platform continues to grow, so does the complexity behind the scenes. This month’s tech blog from Axmate and Quality Assurance Engineer Oleksandra Rudchenko dives into the work of our quality assurance team and how we’re using Cypress to automate our testing workflows at the right moment - not too early, not too late.

What we’re solving for:

🔹 Reducing risk of regressions as features scale
🔹 Increasing visibility and speed in debugging
🔹 Cutting demo prep time with smarter mock data�
🔹 Laying the groundwork for structured, scalable testing across teams

These aren’t just technical upgrades. They’re foundational steps that support a faster, more reliable platform - one that delivers real value to buyers, suppliers, and the systems that connect them.

🛠️ Read the full blog by Oleksandra: https://medium.com//finding-the-right-time-to-automate-scaling-quality-in-a-growing-startup-93b6af6db710

11/07/2025

The Axmed Marketplace keeps gaining ground.

In 2025 so far, the pace of registrations, pre-qualification, and transactions on the Axmed platform continued to rise; evidence that a more connected, transparent procurement system of medicines and health products is taking root, powered by digital transformation.

Here’s what we’ve seen in the year so far, with a steady growth month by month:

✅ Over 140 suppliers have requested to join the platform with more than 70 of them already prequalified and actively engaging with new opportunities.
✅ More than 80 procurers of health products have registered so far through the Axmed platform, and growing.
🌍 Well over 200 platform users from across seven countries, with Nigeria, Kenya, and India leading adoption.
🤝 Trusted by private and public sector partners, NGOs, and faith-based organisations, on both the supply and demand sides.

Every registration moves us closer to a system where:

🔹 Procurers get smarter, faster access to quality medicines, regaining purchasing and decision power
🔹 Suppliers unlock new markets, with digitally aggregated demand in one place
🔹 Health systems become more self-sustaining

To everyone joining the platform and powering this growth: thank you.

The foundation is strong and growing.

👉 Be part of it: [https://axmed.com]

10/28/2025

Axmed at ICFP 2025📍November 2–7 | Bogotá, Colombia

As the global financing landscape shifts, this year’s International Conference on Family Planning arrives at a pivotal time for access, equity, and innovation.

Throughout next week, the Axmed team will be engaging in critical discussions focused on reshaping procurement systems, strengthening country leadership, and unlocking innovative approaches to ensure access to quality reproductive health products.

🔹 On November 2, Temitayo Erogbogbo, our Global Head of Corporate & Public Affairs, will speak at a co-hosted session on building more resilient reproductive health systems.

🔹 Later in the week, Sofia Radley-Searle, Axmed’s COO and Co-Founder, will join the Financing Spotlight Plenary, contributing insights on how the private sector can help address critical financing gaps and support country-led solutions.

The challenges are clear: rising costs, fragmented systems, and declining external funding demand bold new models.

At Axmed, we believe that efficiency, equity, and country ownership are interdependent solutions rather than competing goals. With the right tools and partnerships, we can build sustainable systems that deliver for all.

The team will also take part in strategic meetings across the week with partners, funders, and national leaders, focused on advancing access through smarter, more sustainable procurement.

If you’ll be at ICFP 2025 in Bogotá, we’d welcome the opportunity to connect.

10/08/2025

Inside the Code: streamlining logistics to support procurement in LMICs

As CTO Mattia Albergante shares in our Q3 tech update, logistics is a critical focus for improving how health commodities move across markets.

In the latest episode of Inside the Code, Mattia walks through founding engineer Roudy Tarabay’s latest blog post, showcasing how the Axmed team automated our logistics workflow to better support procurement across LMICs.

What began as a manual, resource-intensive process is now fully integrated and production-ready: improving speed, visibility, and delivery timelines for our users.

📦 Quotation handling time reduced from hours to minutes
⚙️ Built using existing infrastructure, fully interoperable with the Axmed platform
🧩 Designed for scale with minimal overhead

The full post outlines how we used internal user feedback, LLMs, and lean product development to ship in weeks rather than months.

📖 Read the full blog: https://medium.com//automating-our-logistics-user-journey-how-we-leveraged-our-learnings-for-fast-delivery-d5cbac528765

Every technical improvement we make is in service of one goal: building faster, smarter systems that make essential medicines more affordable and accessible for the communities that need them most.

09/25/2025

On Monday at UNGA 2025, Axmed CEO Emmanuel Akpakwu joined a panel discussion hosted by Devex to address a core question in the global NCD response: Where should the next billion in NCD funding go: prevention or treatment?

The session put a spotlight on both the urgency to expand access to care for millions already living and dying from chronic disease and the importance of creating and scaling the infrastructure and healthcare ecosystems to ensure prevention long term.

With global health funding under strain, we have a greater responsibility to use existing resources more effectively by addressing the many structural gaps across the global health ecosystem and confronting the root causes of cost. No single actor, public or private, can close these gaps alone. The need for creative partnerships has never been so pressing and now is the moment where we need to move together from intention to ex*****on, particularly across fragmented regulatory and supply environments.

Central to this challenge is confronting the outdated and unsustainable belief: that global health needs to be expensive to be good. Research shows that markups on essential medicines in LMICs can reach 200–500%, and up to 1,500% for some generic oncology products. These excessive costs directly undermine our ability to expand access to life saving treatments for chronic diseases.

By leveraging technology, we can fundamentally rethink how healthcare commodities are procured and moved around the world. Axmed’s digital marketplace was built to help solve this challenge. By aggregating demand, improving transparency, and reducing fragmentation, we’re already delivering savings of 30% on average for essential medicines, making high-quality products more accessible across LMICs.

The solutions exist, the technology is proven, and the partnerships are forming. What we can’t afford is further delay. Every day that we don’t take concrete action, more lives are lost to preventable and treatable chronic disease. The time for us to act collectively, and with urgency, is now.

Watch the full session online here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMvOCQv6xjI&list=PL9aeTr7AGyAbBHLmkyniVZ1Z-s3s9ZEbL&index=9

📸 Swipe for images from the session.

Learn more about the Axmed Marketplace 👉 https://bit.ly/4kdkX6H

09/23/2025

At UNGA 2025, we opened the week with a focused session on how to disrupt traditional funding models to close the maternal and newborn health capital gap.

On Sunday at Goals House, in partnership with Every Pregnancy and with support from the Gates Foundation, we convened an invite-only discussion with global health leaders, funders, and frontline advocates.

Discussion themes included:

- How to direct resources to local organisations that are trusted by the communities they serve
- What is required to unlock collaborative funding models across philanthropy, public, private, and faith-based institutions
- How to drive greater efficiency to expand access to high-quality care

Improving maternal and newborn health outcomes will require more than additional financing. It demands a rethinking of how capital is structured, deployed, and aligned with innovations that allow systems to do more with less.

Current models for delivering medicines and health products in many low- and middle-income countries are marked by inefficiencies. Fragmented supply chains, weak commercial infrastructure, and limited regulatory capacity leave space for intermediaries to dominate, leading to significant mark-ups often 200–500% on medicines and 40–60% on consumables. These costs directly limit access, particularly where affordability is already a barrier.

Axmed has developed a digital marketplace to address these inefficiencies. By aggregating demand, reducing fragmentation, and enabling scale, we are reducing procurement costs while creating new opportunities for high-quality manufacturers to reach underserved markets.

To achieve lasting impact, we must pair market-based innovation with smarter capital deployment: funding models that strengthen health systems, reduce duplication, and channel resources more effectively.

In the session's concluding remarks, panelists called on governments, donors, and partners to:

🔹 Channel resources to local organizations closest to the communities they serve
🔹 Ensure flexible funding that can adapt quickly during crises
🔹 Support innovations and systems that ensure every dollar goes further, funding lifesaving interventions with the greatest impact
🔹 Build collaborative funding models that reduce fragmentation, increase impact, and improve efficiency

By combining innovative market approaches with redesigned funding and resilient health systems, we can create a future where every pregnancy is safe, and every mother and newborn has reliable access to the medicines and healthcare they need.

📸 Swipe through for a look inside the session.

Our work at UNGA 2025 continues this week with targeted country-led discussions, strategic bilateral meetings, and a focus on concrete action to transform how health commodities reach the communities that need them most.

09/18/2025

At Axmed, we are driven by a simple conviction: every community deserves the means to heal. This means access to life-saving medicines, essential health commodities, and the supply chains that deliver them reliably to those who need the most.

The 80th United Nations General Assembly represents a critical moment for global health, where urgent need meets unprecedented opportunity. As health crises multiply and funding shortfalls deepen, business as usual is no longer an option. Axmed is turning this pivotal moment into action, working directly with governments, donors, and partners to rewrite what access looks.

Our team will be on the ground in New York shaping key discussions and driving decisions on:

- Access to NCD medicines and health commodities
- Addressing unmet needs for family planning suppliers
- Demonstrating system-level supply chain solutions
- Strengthening health systems resilience across LMICs

The stakes are clear: urgency must translate into delivery, and delivery must reach everyone.

Attending UNGA? Let’s connect and advance this critical mission together.

Swipe to meet the team leading this charge!

09/10/2025

Thanks to our Head of Corporate Strategy and Pipeline Development Liz van Erp for sharing inspiring words on what it takes to build trust and thrive as a team of Axmates!

Last month our Global Health Advisory Team came together in the Swiss Alpine town of Wengen for their annual offsite.

As a global team that spans from Brazil to Nigeria to Indonesia, creating space to meet, align and strategize about how to increase access to medicines in LMICs is essential.

The team focused on building trust and driving impact, and left with a clear and united voice on:

💡Why Axmed exists → To accelerate equitable access to medicines in LMICs.
💡 How Axmed Global Health Advisory is different → In tandem with our B2B platform, our success is inseparable from that of our partners. Everything we do serves stronger health systems.
💡 Where Axmed Global Health Advisory creates value → By turning strategy into access, and access into lives saved.

We're proud of our highly specialized global health advisory team! Whether through launch strategies, innovative financing, or new delivery models, their focus remains clear: increasing access to medicines in LMICs. 💊

Read Liz’s full takeaways - https://lnkd.in/dRnqNbdB

Our partners value this different way of working - one defined by excellence, and real impact. As we grow, we’re doing it intentionally. If you’re curious about Axmed GHA or want to explore how to get involved, we’d love to hear from you!

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

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