Mission

What We Do

We specialize in critical preventive medicines in short supply and improved drug products for community-based mass drug administration. These medicines are on the World Health Organization Essential Medicines List and World Health Organization Essential Medicines List for Children.

We provide our medicines below-cost or completely free to governments and non-governmental organizations serving neglected populations. Our business model allows these products to be funded primarily through grants and charitable contributions.

We use appropriate dosage forms, optimal packaging, and labels and instructions in the local language when requested. This practice increases compliance and improves outcomes. The impoverished sick and susceptible deserve quality medicine in child-resistant, tamper-evident, environmentally-friendly packaging that they can read.

Definitions

Critical preventive medicines can prevent the occurrence of a serious disease or halt a serious disease and avert resulting complications after its onset.

Mass drug administration is treatment or preventive medicine administered to every member of a defined population (except those for whom the medicine is contraindicated) usually annually or biannually until the disease is no longer endemic.

Neglected populations defined here are peoples living in poor socio-economic conditions where efforts to eliminate preventable or curable diseases do not exist or are not working.