African health systems do not lack diagnoses — they lack partners who stay from the policy paper to the pharmacy shelf. Sanafra was founded to be that partner.
Sanafra is a partnership platform: a permanent core team that assembles licensed manufacturers, pharmaceutical wholesalers, hospitals, advisors and local distributors around each engagement. The structure is deliberate. It keeps our fixed costs low and our incentives clean — we succeed only when the engagement succeeds — and it lets every project get exactly the partners it needs, rather than whatever a single company happens to have on the shelf.
The platform is anchored in Türkiye's health ecosystem — one of the world's most studied health transformations, a top-tier pharmaceutical manufacturing base and internationally accredited hospitals — and delivered through vetted partners across our African markets.
Senior experience in health policy, financing, pricing and public procurement — the top of the system.
Licensed, GMP-certified supply of medicines, devices and hospital solutions — the base of the system.
Real relationships with governments, importers and providers in each market — the ground where it all lands.
Sanafra's core team pairs three complementary leads. Full profiles are shared on request as engagements take shape.
Directs country diagnostics, reform advisory and institutional relationships — bringing senior public-health policy experience from Türkiye's transformation era, plus hospital and industry networks.
Leads country entry, local partner development and commercial execution — drawing on years of on-the-ground African trade and government relationships.
Owns product portfolio, manufacturer relations, regulatory files and supply integrity — with senior operating experience inside the pharmaceutical industry.
Sanafra is a young platform built by people who are not young in this work. Selected, anonymized examples of the experience our principals and partner network bring — institutional references are shared in engagement discussions.
Senior roles in designing and operating reference pricing and central negotiation — helping bring public medicine prices among the lowest in the OECD while access expanded.
Hands-on roles in the rollout of universal health insurance, primary-care reform and public hospital reorganization during Türkiye's Health Transformation Programme.
Senior operating experience inside pharmaceutical manufacturing and wholesale — portfolio management, regulatory affairs and export operations.
Feasibility, commissioning and operations experience across public and private hospitals, imaging centres and laboratories in Türkiye and surrounding regions.
Years of on-the-ground African commercial experience — building importer, distributor and government relationships across West and East Africa.
Designing and hosting ministerial and technical delegation programmes across health authorities, hospitals, manufacturing plants and R&D centres.
Too many suppliers have treated African markets as short-term opportunities. Sanafra's entire strategy depends on being the opposite. Hold us to these:
Health procurement is a high-risk environment for corruption. Sanafra's answer is a compliance system built in from the start — not retrofitted after growth.
Know-your-customer and beneficial-ownership checks, sanctions screening, and politically-exposed-person review for every partner, agent and major counterparty — refreshed periodically, not just at onboarding.
Strict prohibition of bribes and facilitation payments, aligned with international anti-corruption conventions. Anti-bribery covenants in every partner and agent contract.
Every commission documented and justified by real services. Gifts and hospitality governed by written policy. Delegation programmes designed as legitimate technical exchange — never as inducement.
Licensed channels only. Cold-chain custody records. Batch-level traceability. Pharmacovigilance obligations honoured in every market — because a compromised medicine is a compromised patient.
Small, concrete, delivered exactly as promised — that is how every Sanafra relationship begins.
