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The Africa Young Innovators for Health Award provides an invaluable opportunity to leverage the ingenuity of Africas growing youth population to find locally adapted solutions that help our communities have greater access to affordable and quality healthcare products and services.
The Award offers four winners financial support totaling 90, 000 USD to take their innovation to the next level, alongside a threemonth business mentorship program with leading business figures and strategic guidance on intellectual property rights from one of Africas top law firms.
This program provides young African health innovators the chance to learn from business, media, and legal experts to further develop their healthcare innovations, join a growing community of healthcare entrepreneurs, and strengthen the health ecosystem on the continent so that Africas biggest health challenges can be tackled, says Yacine Djibo, Director and Founder of Speak Up Africa, reflecting on the value the program.
Conrad Tankou, CEO of GICMed and winner of the first edition of the Award, says,The program gave me the space to identify the strengths and weaknesses in my business and helped me improve my business model to attract investors, grow my network, and successfully scale up into new areas.
This year applicants must be between 21 and 35 and be able to show that they have developed a minimum viable health product or service or are in the process of developing such a product or service, with the potential to scale up their innovation to drive efforts towards achieving UHC.
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IFPMA and Speak Up Africa launch the 2nd edition of the Africa Young Innovators for Health Award focused on supporting young health innovators across Africa advance their promising healthcare solutions in support of Universal Health Coverage.Four award winners will receive financial and inkind support to bring their healthcare innovations to life.
Dakar, Senegal and Geneva, Switzerland, 22 May 2023/African Media Agency(AMA)/The International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers amp Association (IFPMA) and Speak Up Africa launch the second edition of their flagship program, the African Young Innovators for Health Award, on the sidelines of the 76thsession of the World Health Assembly.
This year, the Award Program seeks to find and nurture youthdriven health innovations that strive to accelerate efforts to advance Universal Health Coverage (UHC) in Africa.
Through their platforms and relationships and with the help of partners, Speak Up Africa ensures that policy makers meet implementers that solutions are showcased and that every sector from individual citizens and civil society groups to global donors and business leaders contributes critically to the dialogue and strives to form the blueprints for concrete action for public health and sustainable development.
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