- link Copy Url - [ Share on twitter ](https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=Perfecting Access Through Embedded Sustainability, Pooling Resources and Consolidating Expertise https://www.3blmedia.com/markdownify/node/71838?absolute=1&via=3blnews "link to 3 B L Media's Twitter") - [ Share on linkedin ](https://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?mini=true&url=https://www.3blmedia.com/markdownify/node/71838?absolute=1 "link to 3 B L Media's Linkedin") - [ Share on facebook ](https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=https://www.3blmedia.com/markdownify/node/71838?absolute=1 "link to 3 B L Media's Facebook") - [ email Share via email ](mailto:?subject=Perfecting Access Through Embedded Sustainability, Pooling Resources and Consolidating Expertise&body=ESG News from Novartis https://www.3blmedia.com/markdownify/node/71838?absolute=1 "Share via email") [Health & Healthcare](/CSR-News/health-healthcare) # Perfecting Access Through Embedded Sustainability, Pooling Resources and Consolidating Expertise ##### Anthony Gitau on EFPIA Blog Jun 21, 2016 6:10 AM ET Campaign: [Novartis Access: Medicines to treat chronic diseases in lower-income countries ](/node/62475) ![](https://3blaws.s3.amazonaws.com/styles/carousel_2x/s3/images/Gitau.png "Anthony Gitau, Country Head of Novartis Access and Familia Nawiri in Kenya") Anthony Gitau, Country Head of Novartis Access and Familia Nawiri in Kenya Anthony Gitau is Country Head of Novartis Access and Familia Nawiri in Kenya. In his current role, Anthony Gitau is in charge of implementing and scaling up the two social business programs of Novartis in Kenya. These are meant to empower people living at the base of the pyramid to take control of their health and to give them access to quality affordable healthcare services and products. Anthony tells his story about his passion for working on affordable access programs on EFPIA Blog: "I remember when I first really began to understand the necessity of access to medicines in my country, Kenya. Back in 2000, I was a newly-qualified sales representative, the starting point for many people working in the pharma industry. One of the products I was promoting was an antimalarial. As it happened, there was a malaria outbreak raging in my sales territory, the Kisii district – doctors and nurses were overwhelmed, patients were four to a bed, and they had even run out of stands to hold drip bags – these were held up by patients and their families instead. I was in a pharmacy talking to the pharmacist. An old lady came in and handed over a prescription. As the pharmacist told her the price for the drug, she shook her head sadly, and shuffled out the door...." **Read the full story on EFPIA Blog:** [![Novartis logo](/sites/default/files/Clients/novartis_logo_012919.jpg)](/profiles/novartis) ### More from Novartis ###### [Energize – A First-of-Its-Kind Program to Increase Access to Renewable Energy for Pharmaceutical Suppliers](/news/energize-first-its-kind-program-increase-access-renewable-energy-pharmaceutical-suppliers) Nov 4, 2021 6:00 AM ET ###### [Novartis and Medicines for Malaria Venture Report Positive Results for Phase 2b Study of Novel Ganaplacide/Lumefantrine Combination in Children With Malaria](/news/novartis-and-medicines-malaria-venture-report-positive-results-phase-2b-study-novel) Sep 29, 2021 3:00 PM ET ###### [Together Against Child Mortality: Novartis and Save the Children Launch Health Project in the Slums of Nairobi](/news/together-against-child-mortality-novartis-and-save-children-launch-health-project-slums-nairobi) Aug 2, 2021 9:00 AM ET ###### [Novartis Pledges 10-year Commitment With Morehouse School of Medicine, 26 Historically Black Colleges, Universities, Medical Schools and Other Leading Organizations to Co-create Effective, Measurable Solutions for Health Equity](/news/novartis-pledges-10-year-commitment-morehouse-school-medicine-26-historically-black) Jul 20, 2021 8:15 AM ET ###### [Novartis and Hewlett Packard Enterprise Join Forces to Advance Novartis Global Health Efforts](/news/novartis-and-hewlett-packard-enterprise-join-forces-advance-novartis-global-health-efforts) Jun 23, 2021 12:10 PM ET ###### [Novartis Reaches Milestone Delivery of 1 Billion Courses of Antimalarial Treatment](/news/novartis-reaches-milestone-delivery-1-billion-courses-antimalarial-treatment) May 18, 2021 2:15 AM ET ###### [Novartis Inaugurates Innovative Watershed Project in India to Increase Water Availability](/news/novartis-inaugurates-innovative-watershed-project-india-increase-water-availability) Mar 22, 2021 10:30 AM ET ###### [Novartis and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Collaborate to Discover and Develop an Accessible in Vivo Gene Therapy for Sickle Cell Disease](/news/novartis-and-bill-melinda-gates-foundation-collaborate-discover-and-develop-accessible-vivo) Feb 17, 2021 1:15 AM ET