Operations

AfroCentric is the most diversified healthcare company in Southern Africa. To leverage our integration model, our business is organised into three primary clusters, namely medical aid administration, risk management and technology; pharmaceutical; and our corporate solutions offerings.

To better understand the value delivered through our business clusters, please see Cluster performance.

Medical aid administration, risk management and technology

3.8 MILLION
LIVES UNDER MANAGEMENT
(2020: 3.8 million)

39%
MARKET SHARE GROUP (2020: 39%)

SUBSTANTIAL DIGITAL AND TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCEMENT

Our businesses
Medscheme
Medscheme

provides its established clients with a full spectrum of health administration and health risk management services.

AfroCentric Technologies
AfroCentric Technologies

is a market leader in technology-based products and services. Its systems connect millions of scheme members, schemes, doctors and hospitals internationally.

AfroCentric Health Medscheme

Driven by our vision, we have consistently delivered innovative, affordable health risk management, medical scheme administration and information technology solutions of exceptional quality to leading medical schemes and corporate clients outside of South Africa. The International division, has established itself through subsidiaries and associate businesses in a number of African countries including Namibia, Mauritius and Botswana.

Namibia Health Plan administered by Medscheme Namibia has won the PMR award for excellence in the Namibia medical aid industry for the 11th successive year.

Aid for AIDS
Aid for AIDS

has been the industry leader in HIV/AIDS management since 1998. The business coordinates care between funders, doctors, pathology labs, pharmacies and patients. This includes designing, developing and delivering unique and encompassing programmes that help businesses care for and manage medical schemes for individuals with HIV/AIDS. The business seeks to design programmes that understand patients’ needs and equip them with the treatment and tools to lead fulfilled lives.

PMR, a consultancy and research company based in South Africa, does an annual national survey on Managed Healthcare Companies in South Africa. Aid for AIDS won a Diamond Arrow Award in the category for Disease Management (HIV/AIDS) for the second year in a row.

Klinikka
Klinikka

Klinikka is licensed to offer the DBC programme, an evidence-based, multidisciplinary treatment approach to managing musculoskeletal disorders. Klinikka provides DBC equipment and administration services to 26 musculoskeletal treatment centres in Southern Africa.

AfroCentric Distribution Services
AfroCentric Distribution Services

is a specialised marketing and sales company that offers a full suite of marketing services and comprehensive distribution channel management.

Allegra
Allegra

is a tech-based contributor to the medical sector that empowers healthcare communities by providing access to information that enhances total individual care. Allegra strives to gather and share vital information seamlessly with appropriate healthcare providers, funders, and other stakeholders, ultimately resulting in enhanced quality of life for patients.

Private Healthcare Administrators
Private Healthcare Administrators

is a medical scheme administrator that leverages its technologically advanced systems to provide innovative healthcare solutions to its open and corporate scheme clients.

DENIS
DENIS

DENIS has 25 years of experience as a managed care company and its focus is entirely on dental management. With DENIS being part of the AfroCentric Group, it adds to the Group’s diversity as focused dental managed care is now a new product to offer to all its medical scheme clients.

Pharmaceutical

LARGEST SOUTH AFRICAN COURIER PHARMACY

FULL MEDICINE SPEND CAN BE MANAGED

HIGH IMPACT ON OVERALL HEALTHCARE SPEND AND SAVINGS FOR SCHEMES

ONCOLOGY MEDICINE MANAGEMENT

Our businesses
Pharmacy Direct
Pharmacy Direct

distributes and delivers medicine to urban and rural areas for medical scheme clients and government’s CCMDD programme.

Curasana
Curasana

is a specialty pharmaceutical wholesaler that procures and supplies pharmaceutical products to Pharmacy Direct, Activo Health and other major wholesalers in Gauteng.

Activo Health
Activo Health

specialises in importing and marketing pharmaceutical products and trades in all sectors of the pharmaceutical industry.

Forrester Pharma
Forrester Pharma

owns several registered legal rights to manufacture and distribute specific generic medications (dossiers) and have the right to a substantial pipeline of dossiers in the process of being registered with the South African Products Regulatory Authority.

Scriptpharm
Scriptpharm

Scriptpharm is a registered managed care organisation that manages chronic and acute medicine through capitation arrangement, where healthcare providers are managed in terms of efficiency, cost control and preventative care. The business provides drug utilisation reviews, and Scriptpharm medicine formulary is a list of safe, clinically appropriate and cost-effective medicines for treating specific conditions.

MMed Distribution (MMed)
MMed Distribution (MMed)

is a specialist procurer and distributor of affordable pharmaceutical, surgical and medical products and devices. It has distribution agreements with several multi-national manufacturers with a national footprint. MMed partners with private hospitals and improves their cost-efficiency by providing a fully outsourced stock supply and management service.

Corporate solutions

PRIMARY CARE

OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH

FULLY INTEGRATED WITH
WELLNESS

Our businesses
AfroCentric Integrated Corporate Solutions
AfroCentric Integrated Corporate Solutions

combines newly acquired Sanlam Health, PHAs and FastPulse to provide integrated health and wellness solutions to the workplace.

Wellness Odyssey
Wellness Odyssey

provides people-centric wellness solutions that identify noncommunicable clinical risk; promote awareness and supply educational material; refer designated high-risk members to established disease management programmes; and provide home-based care services to scheme members.

EssentialMed
EssentialMed

provides comprehensive medical insurance cover, with private medical facilities.