Meet Unu
Hello. We are Unu. We do healthcare that makes you 😀
We come to work every day to extend Africa’s life expectancy by one year. And then, beyond.
We built the Unu platform to change the way people access, pay for and experience primary healthcare. Because we believe that good health is at the heart of Africa’s productivity, prosperity and potential.
That’s why we’re on this journey
The facts that motivate us...
We learned
Africa’s life expectancy lags 10 years behind the global average.
We asked
How can we use technology to add just one more year of life as our starting point?
We learned
95% of our people rely on state healthcare.
We asked
How can we help alleviate pressure on the state system by using tech to improve capacity?
We learned
Our share of the global health spend in sub-Saharan Africa is just 1%, yet we carry 24% of the world’s disease burden.
We asked
How can we connect the best in innovation and drive investment through our platform?
We learned
'NCD's like diabetes & hypertension account for 74% of all deaths globally, of which 14.6m (86%) of premature deaths (under 70yrs) occur in middle & low income countries like ours.
We asked
How can we use health tech to drive easily accessed and early screening for NCDs?
If we increase life expectancy on
the continent by just one year...
OUR POTENTIAL IMPACT
Together we can increase GDP by 4%
This is our goal, because we know that without access to quality primary healthcare, individuals and families can’t thrive, businesses can’t grow, communities cannot flourish – and Africa cannot prosper.
OUR POTENTIAL IMPACT
Together we can improve quality of life
We know that access to quality primary healthcare empowers people to take control of their health, which means more people get to enjoy a better quality of life.
A team obsessed with one thing
To disrupt the healthcare status quo so that no one is left behind.
with a string of industry awards
recognising excellence.
AxessHealth Africa.
21 years’ core financial service experience dedicated to insurance. Prior broad strategic experience in life, non-life and brokerage businesses enables financial excellence within Unu Health.
Nearly 20 years’ experience in tech across various industries, including implementing award-winning health tech solutions within primary healthcare.
