EKASINOMICS - Unu Health | Healthcare Tech Platform
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GUEST – Tania Joffe, CEO and Principal of Unu Health
South Africa’s health care remains a two-tiered space, where access to private healthcare, which accounts for 50% of our total expenditure on health, and which supports 17% of our population, remains linked to the ability to pay for private medical scheme membership.
Despite remarkable innovation and progress globally in the health tech domain, which seeks to remove friction and improve access, South Africa’s population with access to private healthcare has moved from 9.6% in 1974 (2.4m members/ population of 25m) to 17% in 2021 (9m member/ population of 59.3m). Aiming to urgently step into the gap, Unu Health is a technology platform that delivers access to affordable, quality primary healthcare.The platform gives users access to primary healthcare providers including nurses, doctors, and pharmacy networks via a zero-rated mobile app, and seeks to empower users to own their wellbeing, key to addressing non-communicable diseases, which by 2030 will be the number one driver of mortality in Sub-Saharan Africa.
South Africa’s health care remains a two-tiered space, where access to private healthcare, which accounts for 50% of our total expenditure on health, and which supports 17% of our population, remains linked to the ability to pay for private medical scheme membership.
Despite remarkable innovation and progress globally in the health tech domain, which seeks to remove friction and improve access, South Africa’s population with access to private healthcare has moved from 9.6% in 1974 (2.4m members/ population of 25m) to 17% in 2021 (9m member/ population of 59.3m). Aiming to urgently step into the gap, Unu Health is a technology platform that delivers access to affordable, quality primary healthcare.The platform gives users access to primary healthcare providers including nurses, doctors, and pharmacy networks via a zero-rated mobile app, and seeks to empower users to own their wellbeing, key to addressing non-communicable diseases, which by 2030 will be the number one driver of mortality in Sub-Saharan Africa.
