NCD Market Pathway
Your Partner in Expanding Access to Noncommunicable Diseases Treatments & Medical Devices
NCDconnect is your advisor in navigating the complexities of market entry for noncommunicable diseases (NCD) treatments and medical devices in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Leveraging IDA Foundation’s 50+ years of experience, NCDconnect supports you in overcoming regulatory and operational challenges, allowing you to reach new patient populations through a coordinated, efficient approach.
With a programmatic and customised approach, NCDconnect is dedicated to building long-term partnerships that bring essential treatments and medical devices to markets with significant gaps.
Advantages of Partnering with NCDconnect
Simplified Strategic Market Entry & Expansion
- Access to New Markets: Unlock early access to growing markets without the burden of generating demand independently.
- Regulatory Navigation Made Easy: Reduce risks and regulatory complexities with expert guidance, ensuring smooth, low-hurdle market entry.
- Valuable Market Intelligence: Make informed decisions based on local insights, backed by our strategic ecosystem approach.
Simplified End-to-end Supply Chain Management
- Operational Efficiency: Rely on our supply chain expertise in order fulfilment, distribution, and stock-keeping, allowing you to focus on your core business.
- Lower Transactional Costs: Reduce administrative and operational expenses with simplified, long-term contracts, that eliminate the need for ad-hoc sourcing.
- Safe Transactions: Access a network of vetted buyers for secure transactions and guaranteed payments.
Simplified Pathways to Impactful Results
Through our combined efforts in market entry facilitation and supply chain management, benefit from consistent, aggregated demand through consolidated procurement processes that translate into steady, long-term orders.
Together, we can develop sustainable solutions that not only streamline your operations but also enhance patient access to essential treatments and medical devices.
Creating Impact, Together
Of the 413 NCD medicines launched between 2013 and 2022, only 55% reached patients in LMICs. At NCDconnect, we believe every patient deserves access to effective therapies, regardless of where they live. That’s why we work side-by-side with innovative manufacturers to make access to best-in-class NCD medicines a reality.
The results speak for themselves; here’s what meaningful collaboration can look like:
ACT for Children | Servier – Paediatric Cancer Initiative
Challenge: For many hospitals in LMICs, access to affordable, quality-assured medicines like peg-asparaginase for acute lymphoblastic leukaemia remains out of reach.
Our Contribution: We coordinated the end-to-end supply chain, from aligning with Servier, forwarders, and local hospitals to managing import documentation and ensuring temperature-controlled air shipments with data-logger monitoring.
Results: $2.8M in oncology medicines delivered to five hospitals across Asia and Central America, supporting more than 1,000 children.
Novartis – Hetero | Access to Nilotinib in Low-Income Countries
Challenge: Access to affordable, quality-assured nilotinib for chronic myeloid leukaemia remains limited in many LICs due to high prices and complex market entry barriers.
Our Contribution: Following Novartis’ voluntary licence agreement for nilotinib, we collaborated with the ATOM Coalition, the Medicines Patent Pool (MPP), the generic manufacturer Hetero and with local authorities in five countries, to fast-track supply and enable platform-based procurement.
Results: Nilotinib is now available via NCDconnect, with generic versions priced up to 10 times lower than the branded product, significantly easing the financial burden on patients and health systems.
These collaborations show what’s possible when we connect expertise across the ecosystem: seamless supply chain, effective market entry, and real, measurable impact. More partnership success stories coming soon.
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Ready to make a difference?
Contact us today to explore how NCDconnect can support your market entry and supply chain needs.