FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 2021/3/1

Capital Alliance with Africa Health Holdings Limited~ Solution for Medical Facilities, Pharmacies and Laboratories in Africa ~M3, Inc. (Headquarters: Tokyo, Japan; CEO: Itaru Tanimura; URL:
https://corporate.m3.com/en; “M3” below) has announced the capital alliance with Africa HealthHoldings Limited (Headquarters: Cayman Islands; CEO:Sangu Delle; URL:
https://africahealthholdings.com/; “AHH,” below) as an investment for M3’s CVC fund “1P1YFund” (https://corporate.m3.com/1p1y/en/).
1. BackgroundM3 operates m3.com, a specialized web portal for medical professionals that delivers
healthcare related information to its 290,000+ physician members in Japan, and offers marketingand clinical trial services. Recent business expansions have been in areas such as AI
diagnostic tool development, genome diagnostics provision, and stroke rehabilitation centers, nolonger limited to pharmaceutical marketing. “7P Projects” aim to integrate such businesses inorder to provide holistic solutions for multiple issues within individual therapeutic areas.
Furthermore, presence outside of Japan include the U.S., U.K., France, China, Korea and India,
with aggressive business expansion overseas that has amassed 6 million physicians as
members across our global platforms, allowing provision of a wide range of services.
AHH undertakes investment in and operation of medical institutions in Africa, and operates
38 medical facilities across Ghana (Rabito Clinic group), Nigeria (CarePoint Hospitals group) andKenya (Meridian Health Group). AHH also provides online medical services through its
telemedicine application, MyCareMobile.
While Africa accounts for 15% of the total world population and 24% of the total global diseaseburden, it accounts for only 1% of total global medical expenditure and 3% of medical
professionals, which results in a significant supply-demand gap in medical care. As a solution
for this imbalance, AHH aims to bring about revolutionary changes through development of
medical facilities with high quality standards, networking among facilities, and cost reduction in
medical provision, by investing in IT technologies and network development across medicalfacilities. It has provided medical care to over 510,000 patients, of which over 10,000 hadmalaria.

1M3 implements “7P Projects,” which aim to integrate such businesses in order to provide
holistic solutions for multiple issues within individual therapeutic areas that extend beyond
pharmaceutical marketing. Through this capital alliance, M3 will work to increase theproductivity, sophistication, and acceleration in expansion of AHH’s medical facilities and of its
digital technologies, through creation of solutions within the medical field that promote higher
medical standards and wider access to medical care across Africa. To realize these objectives,M3 will leverage its physician platform and services related to research, clinical trials, officeappointment systems, medical site operations management, telemedicine, AI diagnostic
technologies and more, as well as the learnings gained through such service provision.
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Name
Established
Location
URL
CEO
Nature of Business

Africa Health Holdings Limited
2017
Cayman Islands
https://africahealthholdings.com/
Sangu Delle
Management and operation of hospitals, clinics,
pharmacies and laboratories in Africa

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