What is the name of your organization?
Afya Intelligence
What is the name of your solution?
Afya Intelligence
Provide a one-line summary or tagline for your solution.
AI-assisted management of healthcare supply chains, enabling providers to pre-empt risks and ensure availability of priority medicines
In what city, town, or region is your solution team headquartered?
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
In what country is your solution team headquartered?
Tanzania
What type of organization is your solution team?
For-profit, including B-Corp or similar models
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What specific problem are you solving?
Every day, 60 Million Tanzanians rely on their local clinics and pharmacies for essential medicines. Yet too often, mothers seeking antibiotics for their children encounter empty shelves. Despite an annual healthcare products budget of over $900 million, critical medications still frequently run out of stock. More than 7,000 public facilities and thousands of accredited private pharmacies face these recurring shortages. Without access of drugs from regulated supply chains, patients turn to untrusted sources, risking ineffective or even dangerous treatments.
These inefficiencies happen because many healthcare providers lack adequate inventory management tools and training. Supervisors, stretched thin across competing priorities, struggle to manage inventory from a distance. Manual processes and fragmented data systems leave them unable to predict demand accurately, leading to stockouts, overstocking, or stocking substandard products. Patients who depend on the primary healthcare facilities and pharmacies bear the consequences—delayed treatments, wasted resources, and exposure to substandard or counterfeit drugs. These challenges undermine trust in the healthcare system and contribute to preventable deaths and drug resistance.
There is an urgent need for intuitive, data-driven tools that empower healthcare providers and managers to prevent risks and strengthen Tanzania's healthcare supply chain.
What is your solution?
Afya Intelligence provides AI-powered tools that revolutionize supply chain management for both public clinics and private pharmacies.
Afyalytics is AI-assisted supply chain diagnosis tool, helping public facilities to pre-empt risks for priority medicines by simply uploading their data. By analyzing data from national data systems, treatment guidelines, and standard operating procedures, Afyalytics helps maintain optimal inventory levels, preventing both stockouts and waste. This intuitive platform requires no advanced training and saves providers valuable time, already helping over 1,000 public facilities ensure the availability of essential medicines.
Dukadawa is a commercial grade Point-of-Sale (POS) system built specifically for private pharmacies, offering real-time inventory tracking and contextualized business intelligence. Pharmacy owners gain the insights needed to manage their inventory effectively, prevent counterfeit drugs from entering their supply chains, and operate more efficiently.
Together, Afya Intelligence equips healthcare providers, suppliers, financiers, the government and other key stakeholders with the visibility, traceability and foresight needed for robust partnerships. For example, Dukadawa and Afyalytics are helping to back Credit and Subsidy Programs so low income communities can access critical medicines, including self tests and antibiotics, through trusted healthcare providers when they need them.
Who does your solution serve, and in what ways will the solution impact their lives?
Afya Intelligence serves healthcare providers, pharmacy owners, and patients within Tanzania’s public and private healthcare systems. In the public sector, where over 7,000 facilities frequently face stockouts, our AI-powered tools enable healthcare workers to upload data and receive actionable insights. This improves inventory accuracy, reduces stockouts, and saves up time that is redirected to patient care.
In the private sector, there are more than 3,000 pharmacies and 20,000 Accredited Drug Dispensing Outlets (ADDOs), many of which lack reliable inventory tracking or safeguards against counterfeit products. Our Dukadawa Point-of-Sale (POS) platform provides these pharmacies with real-time stock visibility and e-coupons for quality-assured medicines, helping pharmacy owners streamline their operations and pass cost savings to patients.
With Afya Intelligence, healthcare workers are better equipped to maintain medicine availability, and pharmacy owners can run their businesses more efficiently. Patients—particularly the millions in underserved communities—gain consistent, affordable access to essential medicines like antibiotics. By addressing the challenges faced by public and private healthcare facilities, Afya Intelligence helps ensure that lifesaving medications are available to those who need them most, ultimately improving health outcomes across Tanzania.
