Neo Hutiri

Technovera is a social impact organisation that is focused on technology inclusion with the aim of improving the last mile for chronic medication access in Africa. We develop innovative technology solution that impact the lives of our people. We’ve developed Pelebox, a smart locker system that enables patients to collect their repeat chronic medication in under 2 minutes instead of waiting hours on queues at public clinics. South Africa has world's biggest antiretroviral therapy (ART) programme for patients living with HIV and AIDS, and there's been a steady increase in the number of patients with non-communicable diseases (NCDs), requiring chronic therapy. A patient's experience tends to be one of long waiting times, typically above 3 hours. This poses potential adherence barriers which may lead to poor health outcomes and places a strain on the patients in terms of transport costs and loss of income. We pay attention to how technology can be leveraged as an enabler to solve some of the challenging issues in health care. Technovera develops technologies that enable access in a convenient and practical mannete