Love and other Drugs: How mPharma is making it easier to get prescriptions

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Today, Africa has 15 doctors per 100,000 inhabitants and 62% of the population live in rural areas where access to medical facilities is extremely difficult [1]. To further exacerbate the situation, the Sub-Saharan African Region suffers more than 24% of the global burden of disease but has access to only 3% of health workers and less than 1% of the world’s financial resources. This goes to say that healthcare is not only a huge problem across the continent but also an enormous opportunity [2],[3].