Medicines360

Cause Area

  • Health & Medicine
  • Women

Location

353 Sacremento StSuite 900San Francisco, CA 94111 United States

Organization Information

Mission Statement

As a non-profit pharmaceutical company, we do three things:
1. we produce great pharmaceutical products that are needed and wanted by providers and women
2. we ensure that all women can get our products, especially poor women
3. we are financially viable and independent, by employing a social enterprise business model

We address public health challenges by developing safe, high quality products for women’s health. We are currently developing a hormonal IUD because the reproductive health community has demanded a high quality/lower cost option to this great contraceptive. We started this company to change the way that women’s and providers’ pharmaceutical needs are met. We’re weaving together some radical ideas -- compassion, creative thinking, and community -- and leveraging them to heal what’s broken in our health system. Defined as product availability, affordability, and awareness, ensuring unencumbered access to our products is why we exist. It is not enough to simply develop products; the true charge is to maximize access. Our vehicle for sustained and cross-sectoral impact is to commercialize our products through the private sector and then use profits to subsidize product costs in the public sector. We control public sector access to our products - we do not leave it to traditional pharma to realize our vision of social justice. This represents a critical new way of doing business: achieving purpose through profits.
We invite you to visit our site - Medicines360 | Health For Each Woman. Access For All Women.

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Our Approach

Medicines360 is a hybrid of:

Nonprofit: To achieve our mission, we are focused on making the best products available to all women.

Social enterprise: The personal challenge of birth control is universal. We’re giving all women power through affordable, effective contraception.

Pharmaceutical company: We are providing women with access to the best healthcare products.

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