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Statistics show that 25,000 children die every day from preventable causes. Of these deaths, about 70 percent are caused by just four diseases (in combination with malnutrition):

 

  • Respiratory infection

  • Diarrhoea

  • Malaria

  • Measles

 

Many of these cases could be prevented by interventions that promote proper nutrition, prevent disease, and provide early and appropriate responses to sickness. The availability and accessibility of basic, low-cost, essential medicines and appropriate referral systems is essential to saving the lives of children.

 

Deciding to do something to tackle these issues with an innovative approach, OneFamilyHealth was created as a low profit (L3C) organisation registered in the United States. Since then, OneFamilyHealth has been developing a sustainable, cost-justifiable franchise model for the distribution of essential drugs and healthcare in remote and deprived areas of Rwanda, and today continues to promote the use of this model throughout the country. OneFamilyHealth has been recognised internationally amongst the top 23 innovators in health by SIHI see here:  https://socialinnovationinhealth.org/the-case-studies/ 

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Our History & Vision //

The Franchise Model

 

OneFamilyHealth uses a franchise model enabling nurses to open their own healthposts to provide healthcare in their communities. These nurses operate their small for-profit healthposts with constant support and supervision from the OneFamilyHealth team.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Applying this franchise approach enables OneFamilyHealth to take a successful business model, replicate it through the OneFamilyHealth network and share lessons learned with staff, stakeholders and franchisees along the way. OneFamilyHealth Posts focus on stocking medicines that treat the most common diseases affecting rural communities, with special emphasis on ensuring that appropriate preparations and dosages for children are available. The healthposts are located at the heart communities previously lacking a health facility and staffed by trained professional nurses.

 

Once these nurses are selected, they join the OneFamilyHealth team. They receive initial business management training and updated training in related community disease management. Thereafter, they are given ongoing support, which includes refresher training, compliance inspections and mentoring.

The OneFamilyHealth Rwanda Team

 

OneFamilyHealth's management provides constant technical, compliance, financial and logistical support to the franchise network, including:

 

  • Ongoing training of franchisees

  • Supervision and monitoring of healthpost activities, including adherence to standards and treatment guidelines

  • Purchasing and distribution of medicines to healthposts

  • Claiming of payments owed to franchisees by the national health insurance providers and transfer funds received to franchisees

  • Sharing knowledge and lessons learned across the healthpost network through constant communication with franchisees

  • Facilitating the relationship of representatives of the Ministry of Health and OneFamilyHealth franchisees

Our Partners

 

We wouldn't be able to continue our work without the support of our partners; 

 

  • The Ministry of Health of the Republic of Rwanda

  • Ecobank

  • The Pfizer Foundation

  • PharmAccess

  • UCB 

  • GlaxoSmithKline

 

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