The founder of Genity Sarlu has great ambitions for his solution. He does not only want to improve healthcare system in his country but across the whole continent.

Care for people with sickle cell disease in the Democratic Republic of Congo remains poor. Patients in remote areas have more difficulties. To bring a solution to this problem, Arnold Wogbo, founder of the startup Genity Sarlu, created AnemiApp.

 The promoter, a graduate in Electronic Engineering, reveals that he got the idea for his application after working with the NGO "Réseau Drépano SS" as a communication officer. He says he noticed, while questioning sickle cell patients, that they had many needs but not enough specialist doctors to answer them.

The app is available on Android. It provides users with several health tips to limit disease-related crises and improve their daily lives. The information on medicines, vaccines, screening, blood transfusions and major health events, available on the application, comes from doctors, the Ministry of Health and nutritionists. It is also possible to have directions to pharmacies and health centers that provide such care.

People who do not have a smartphone can use the service via a USSD code. Anemiapp is currently operational in Kinshasa but Arnold Wogbo plans a national coverage in the short term.   Anemiapp generates revenue through various user subscriptions and commissions from its services.

Anemiapp won the 2020 award of the Pierre Fabre Foundation's Observatory of e-Health in Southern Countries and the Orange Prize for Social Entrepreneurship in Africa and the Middle East in 2018 (Poesam).

Adoni Conrad Quenum