Latest News + Happenings

Starting April 1, 2025

Akesis Health Nigeria will operate as an independent, locally led organization – focusing on Nigeria and the sub-Saharan Africa region – while Akesis US will focus on projects outside of Nigeria.

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March 11, 2025

Akesis Health Nigeria’s West Africa Regional Director, Zachary Terna Gwa, Ph.D, joined colleagues in São Tomé and Príncipe to enhance the country’s Sample Transport System (STS) through training and technical assistance (TTA). This TTA was offered with support from the In collaboration with the African Society for Laboratory Medicine.

March 8, 2025

We are committed to helping Accelerate Action this International Women's Day by strengthening health systems and ensuring equitable access to essential medical supplies. Our team members took a moment to capture a photo in the official campaign pose.

November 12–15, 2024

At this year’s Global Health Supply Chain Summit in Lagos, Nigeria, our team has had the opportunity to connect with some of our colleagues and partners from around the world, including Medical Access.

August 22, 2024

Zachary Terna Gwa, Ph.D, Akesis Health Nigeria’s Regional Director, West & Central Africa, joined our partner, The Partnership for Improving Supply Chain Management (PICMA), earlier this week at the PharmaConnect Africa conference in Lusaka, Zambia.

May 7, 2024

In October 2020, mass protests across Nigeria turned violent, leading to the looting and vandalization of our Calabar Regional Warehouse. Despite these challenges, our team, alongside Chemonics International, quickly pivoted operations to the Awka Regional Warehouse, 250km away, ensuring a continuous flow of essential supplies. With the invaluable support of stakeholders like the Cross River State Government, we embarked on the journey of rebuilding. In November 2023, we celebrated a significant milestone by completing our first last-mile distribution (LMD) post-vandalization. Watch the video.

December 1, 2023

Our team commemorated World AIDS Day on December 1 by highlighting the vital role of a sustainable health system in strengthening solutions to improve the lives of people living with HIV/AIDS.

November 27-30, 2023

Our team members, Zachary Gwa (Regional Director, West & Central Africa) and Chiamaka Orji (Laboratory Logistics Officer) had the privilege of attending the International Conference on Public Health in Africa (CPHIA) in Zambia.

November 14-16, 2023

Our team participated and learned from insightful discussions with supply chain leaders around the world at the 2023 Global Health Supply Chain Summit in Nairobi, Kenya. We also had the opportunity to share our insights on developing local supplier capacity! Read the poster.

March 24, 2023

Each year on World Tuberculosis (TB) Day, our team participates in the ministerial press briefing in support of this observation to help end TB. Thank you to the National Tuberculosis and Leprosy Control Programme for your partnership in bringing attention to this important public health challenge.

December 15, 2022

Our team had a great time celebrating this past year’s successes at our end-of-year party! Nigeria has been a challenging environment to operate in over the past year, and we are incredibly proud of our collective resilience and perseverance.

December 8, 2022

The Akesis team was proud to attend the Global Health Supply Chain Summit in Dakar, Senegal last week. Zachary Terna Gwa Ph.D, our Regional Director of West & Central Africa, presented our own resiliency case study, sharing lessons learned from managing the impact of mass protests in Nigeria to ensure an uninterrupted supply of critical commodities to patients despite the circumstances. Read the poster.

November 24, 2022

As part of the USAID Global Health Supply Chain Program-Procurement and Supply Management project, Akesis supports Nigeria’s National Integrated Specimen Referral Network (NiSRN) with sample transport and result dispatch services across the country, including last-mile delivery.

September 1, 2022

As part of the USAID Global Health Supply Chain Program (GHSC) consortium, Akesis Health Nigeria supports the National Integrated Specimen Referral Network (NiSRN) in providing lab sample transport and result dispatch services across the country. In partnership with Chemonics International, we’ve supported 1200+ facilities.

October 7, 2022

The Small Business Association for International Companies (SBAIC) recently sat down with our team to learn about how the Akesis Delivery System (ADS) is improving end-to-end data visibility in Nigeria’s healthcare supply chain. Read the article.

April 14, 2022

Our team had the opportunity to share our experience in supporting in-country logistics in Liberia specifically in providing Technical Assistance to the Central Medical Stores/National Distribution Services at the USAID Global Health Supply Chain Program (GHSC) Liberia Summit.

April 7, 2022

Aspiring for a healthier tomorrow, we took a moment to celebrate our projects and partners that continue to come together to move health forward in recognition of World Health Day.

March 24, 2022

Our team participated in a variety of activities to commemorate World Tuberculous Day.

December 1, 2021

In recognition of World AIDS Day, our team promoted the importance of HIV testing and the necessity of access to life-saving services. Our goal is to help build more resilient health systems, and we believe access to testing and treatment are two critical pieces of the puzzle.

November 4, 2021

Over the last 20 years, working closely with our partners to strengthen public health commodity supply chains, we recognized the need for an affordable, convenient, and effective track-and-trace system. To fill this gap, Akesis Health Nigeria has designed ADS – our Electronic Proof of Delivery (ePOD) system to ensure seamless, end-to-end data visibility.

March 24, 2021

In partnership with the National Tuberculosis and Leprosy Control Programme in Nigeria, our team was able to donate materials to support broad sensitization and Tuberculosis awareness throughout the country of Nigeria.

September 24, 2020

Looking ahead at how the global public health landscape is changing, we felt it was critical to redirect our focus and efforts toward sustainability. As part of our renewed dedication, the Axios Foundation officially became Akesis on September 24, 2020.