About

Pan African Health Foundation (PAHF) was founded as an International NGO in Nigeria, the United States and the United Kingdom in 2003 to develop Africa’s local capacity by building lasting African infrastructures and facilities to produce high quality medical devices at affordable price, to help reduce Africa’s heavy.

PAHF is the state-of-the-art AD Syringe manufacturing facility in the Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria which was built with support from and in collaboration with the Rivers State Government and the Federal Ministry of Health. The Plant was completed in Dec. 2008, accredited by the Pharmacist Council of Nigeria in Feb. 2009, obtained NAFDAC registration in June 2009 and has been in commercial production since then.. Following this, PAHF’s factory obtained the ISO 13485:2003 certification in November 2010 and The Plant is now WHO-PQS registered, accredited and certified as a manufacturer of syringes that meet the highest international quality and safety standards, making it the first and only WHO pre-qualified manufacturer in Nigeria (and the whole of West and Central Africa Region), the second company in the whole of Africa, and only the eighteenth company in the World..

Our strategy departs from the traditional model of assisting Africa that emphasizes the ad hoc donation of essential medical supplies.  In contrast, PAHF has adopted a unique approach of seeking to develop Africa’s local capacity by building lasting African infrastructures and facilities to produce these essential products, on a long-term sustainable basis.  Our approach not only increase the availability, affordability and acceptability of essential medical technologies, it will also enable the transfer of essential technology, develop permanent local capacity and enable the achievement of global standards within Africa.

PAHF, with the sponsorship and collaboration of the Rivers State Government has begun the implementation of ta US$275 Million Integrated Medical Industries Project which comprises of a 1 billion syringes per annum syringe plant, 1 billion per annum hypodermic needles plant (Africa’s first)a 105 million sets per annum IV-Giving-Set Plant (Africa’s first), a 90 million litres per annum IV solutions/medication and injectables Plant, and a 14MW captive gas-fired power plant.
When this project is completed at the end of 2013, we shall then be enabled to match our certified world-class quality with a truly fully-integrated factory of world-class scale and scope, and thus become the most valuable player in the Nigerian health care value chain.