Wits Pharmacy students visiting the Aspen P.E manufacturing facility as a part of their prize from this year's
@WitsHealthFac
Pharmapprentice assignment. The winning group, MedSite learnt the inner workings of the Aspen facilities and being a pharmacist in industry.
#AspenWeCare
Aspen was presented with the 2022 Economic Diplomacy (Global) Ubuntu Award at the annual
#UbuntuAwards
hosted in Cape Town. This is the second Ubuntu Economic Diplomacy Award presented to Aspen, the first being in 2018.
🏆 Congratulations to
@MDiagnostech
winner of the
@aspenpharma
GIBS Route-to-Market Challenge 2023. Kudos to founder Ashley Uys and well done to finalists Portia Mavhungu of
@LogicalPrd
Solutions and Giancarlo Beukes and Gokal Naik of
@Impulse_Biomed
.
The Public Health Enhancement Fund,
@MRCza
&
@HealthZA
celebrated the graduation of its 1st cohort of students. The PHEF is a collaboration of 22 Healthcare Companies (including Aspen),
@MRCza
&
@HealthZA
to improve accessibility to medical schools for disadvantaged communities.
Aspen assisted in establishing a PET-CT scanner at the Cape Universities Body Imaging Centre at Groote Schuur Hospital. The facility will make research on TB therapeutics and diagnostics possible and address important oncology neurocognitive and cardiovascular issues.
#CubicPETCT
Through the collaboration announced between Aspen and Johnson & Johnson, Aspen is the only manufacturing site on the African continent and in the southern hemisphere selected by J&J to compound, fill, finish and package the COVID-19 vaccine.
#AspenWeCare
#WeAreVaccination
Aspen has donated medicines valued at R11 million to facilitate 62 000 surgeries being performed by Ukrainian healthcare workers to save the lives of injured civilians and those in the armed services.
#AspenWeCare
#ProudlyAspen
Aspen is participating in Mandela Day for the 13th consecutive year. This year we are hosting activities in 23 countries to address poverty, confront climate change and contribute to alleviating inequality.
#AspenWeCare
#AspenMandelaDay
#ProudlyAspen
Aspen has concluded a 10-year collaboration agreement with Serum Institute of India Pvt Ltd to manufacture and make available four Aspen-branded vaccines for Africa. Access the full press release via our website.
#ProudlyAspen
The majority of the vaccines manufactured at our facility in Gqberha, Eastern Cape in 2021 will be supplied to South Africa and the member states of the African Union.
#AspenWeCare
#WeAreVaccination
Aspen has announced that it will receive USD30 million from the
@gatesfoundation
and the
@CEPI
to support its capabilities to manufacture lifesaving routine and outbreak vaccines in Africa for Africa.
French President Emmanuel Macron invited Aspen to a closed meeting of seven companies during the Choose France Summit. The discussion included healthcare, ESG, sustainability, and increased collaboration between France and Africa, particularly in the pharmaceutical industry.
Today, Aspen hosted a group of
@WitsHealthFac
3rd-year pharmaceutical innovators as part of the Pharmaprentice program, an initiative that allows the students to pitch pharmaceutical innovations in a boardroom setting and win a trip to our Gqeberha facility.
#ProudlyAspen
Aspen made a public pledge to donate 50000 sanitary pads to Noordgesig High School in effort to combat period poverty. We delivered on that promise today and all 655 female learners will receive a monthly supply of pads for the next 12 months in partnership with
@Siyakunakekela_
Aspen donated vital medicines to the Ukrainian Children's Hospital Paediatric Oncology Ward to assist them during the ongoing war crisis. This donation will benefit children who require these medicines to survive.
#AspenWeCare
#ProudlyAspen
Aspen's Senior Executive Stavros Nicoloau presented the Ubuntu Youth Category Award. This further affirms Aspen's support of youth development initiatives as the youth is the future of our country's success.
#UbuntuAwards2022
(credit:
@DIRCO_ZA
)
Aspen’s FY 2021 Integrated Report was ranked in the Top 10 of EY's 2022 Excellence in Integrated Reporting Awards. You can view the report on our website
#ProudlyAspen
#AspenSustainability
French President
@EmmanuelMacron
presented Stephen Saad with the Knight of the French National Order of Merit today, for his role in developing economic relations between France and South Africa, and his commitment to the underprivileged.
#proudlyaspen
#aspenwecare
#franceinSA
#SAIC2022
| Last night Aspen received an award in the category of Companies that Best Responded to the Challenges of the COVID Environment and specifically for Aspen’s localisation efforts in vaccine manufacture at the
@SAInvestmentCo
#InvestSA
#ProudlyAspen
Join Aspen's Stavros Nicolaou, Senior Executive: Strategic Trade for the
#IndoAfrica2020
Virtual Summit. He presents on Big Pharma: Innovation and New Business Models on Thursday, 5th November 2020 from 13:00pm SAST.
Register here:
In furthering our goal towards "Gender Equality Today for a Sustainable Tomorrow", Aspen Pharmacare, Deputy Minister
@ThembiSiweya
and the
@HappimeP
Foundation officially handed over sanitary pads and computers to Jiyana Secondary School in Tembisa.
#AspenWeCare
#BridgingTheGap
Aspen Holdings, Group Operating Officer, Lorraine Hill getting involved in 2018 Nelson Mandela International Day activities in Durban, South Africa today.
#aspenmandeladay
#LivingTheLegacy
Our very own Karen Baldwin, Assistant Company Secretary, has written the latest version of the Company Secretarial Practice textbook (South Africa).
Congratulations on your outstanding achievement Karen!
#CSSA
Aspen earlier today confirmed a non-binding term sheet with Johnson & Johnson on the manufacture and sale of an Aspen-branded COVID-19 vaccine throughout Africa called Aspenovax.
#ProudlyAspen
#AspenWeCare
#Aspenovax
Aspen in partnership with the
@TamboFoundation
and
@ImbumbaFoundat1
through the
@Caring4Girls
initiative have distributed sanitary towels to over 1400 girls from 4 schools in the Nkantolo community in rural Eastern Cape. Our mission to combat period poverty continues
#AspenWeCare
1 in 4 people worldwide die of conditions caused by thrombosis, otherwise known as
#bloodclots
. Thrombosis is the often preventable underlying pathology of the top-3 cardiovascular killers which is why we need to open our eyes to thrombosis today.
#WTDay21
#EyesOpenToThrombosis
Aspen joins the country and the medical fraternity in mourning the passing of Dr Sindi van Zyl, a dedicated and significant contributor to our country’s healthcare system.
#DrSindi
#RIPDrSindiVanZyl
#AspenWeCare
Aspen was recently awarded 1st place Pharmaceutical Manufacturers in the
@PMRafrica
awards hosted in Gqeberha. The survey based awards recognise Companies and institutions making a difference in their sectors over the past 12 months to stimulate the economic growth.
#ProudlyAspen
We have donated 600 internet-enabled electronic devices valued at R2.4 million to support disadvantaged students from the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Pretoria, South Africa.
#AspenWeCare
#ProudlyAspen
Aspen has provided life-saving emergency relief to patients in Turkey and Syria by donating critical care medicines and blankets.
#ProudlyAspen
#AspenWeCare
Aspen Pharmacare has partnered with the South African Department of International Relations and Corporation to assist in the emergency evacuation of South African students who have been studying at various Universities in the Ukraine.
#AspenWeCare
#ProudlyAspen
Aspen Pharmacare would like to congratulate Africa’s highest ranked women’s wheelchair tennis player
@KGmontjane1
on her latest deal with
@NSWZA
- wishing you all the best with all your matches at the
@AustralianOpen
#RoadToGreatness
"No act of kindness is more important than another. A sales representative who buys and shares lunch with a homeless person touches a life just as a team painting classrooms or preparing meals for the elderly would." - Stephen Saad, Aspen Group CE
#aspenmandeladay
We are proud to announce that our first two Law Graduates commenced their Law Articles of Clerkship on 1 November 2022 through the inaugural Aspen Legal ESG Law Graduate Programme.
#ProudlyAspen
#AspenWeCare
This week, we celebrate the 8th anniversary of the Sustainable Development Goals. We are participating in the SDG Flag Campaign to show our commitment to
#Agenda2030
. The
#SDGs
provide a roadmap for an inclusive, just and sustainable society.
#ProudlyAspen
#AspenWeCare
The Public Health Enhancement Fund met with the
@HealthZA
Minister
@DrZweliMkhize
. The PHEF aims to fund students from disadvantaged areas obtain qualifications in medicine and research in health who go back and service their communities.
#AspenWeCare
Aspen Port Elizabeth helped make a difference at Sinako-We Can, a home for disabled children & young adults based in Newton Park as well as a second beneficiary, Ikamva Learning Without Borders run by Masixole Swartbooi, QC Lab Analyst (SVP).
#AspenWeCare
#AspenMandelaDay
Chief Executive, Stephen Saad addressed President Ramaphosa and his Delegation at Aspen’s sterile facility in Gqberha, Eastern Cape earlier today.
#AspenWeCare
#WeAreVaccination
Aspen has donated life-saving surgical anaesthetics for about 240 000 Lebanese patients in light of the the world’s largest non-nuclear ammonium nitrate blast which occurred in Beirut, claiming the lives of over 200 civilians and left more than 300 000 homes damaged.
#AspenWeCare
Stavros Nicolaou participated in the
@AfricaCDC
Africa's Vaccine Manufacturing Virtual Conference panel discussion on the State of Africa’s vaccine manufacturing – meeting short-term COVID-19 needs and long-term vaccine security
#WeAreVaccination
#AfricaResponds
Stavros Nicolaou, Dr Chris Archer, Tanya Cohen, Dr Guni Goolab, Dr. Anban Pillay, Melanie da Costa, Stavros Nicolaou, Dr Terrence Moodley, Dr Jonathan Broomberg, took part in a robust panel discussion on the NHI at the
#HASA2019
@HospitalAssocSA
Don't miss eNCA's interview with Stephen Saad, Aspen Group Chief Executive on DSTV 403, Saturday 3 April at 10h00 and again at 15h30. Sally Burdett will be unpacking Aspen's role in supplying a COVID vaccine solution for South Africans and the continent.
Grateful to HE Minister Pandor for announcing DIRCO officials' donation of blankets to victims of the earthquake.
@MFATurkiye
@DIRCO_ZA
Many thanks also to Dr. Stavros Nicolaou, Senior Group Executive of Strategic Trade at
@aspenpharma
for organizing the delivery of medicine.
"The Eastern Cape Government is truly proud to partner a company like Aspen in its journey in providing quality healthcare to South Africans." MEC of Finance, Economic Development, Environmental Affairs and Tourism Mlungisi Mvoko.
#Aspen
#AspenPharma
#AspenWeCare
#Anaesthetics
"With the
#WalkinMyShoes
campaign, I want us to show one another that we are willing to acknowledge and accept one another's journeys." -
@MasingitaTv
Masingita also launched her Cape to Cairo venture which will see her travelling across Africa helping underprivileged families.
Ayesha Mathuthu and Reginald Haman of Aspen Holdings handed over a R100 000 cheque on 23 December 2020. The donation was made in lieu of the Durban office year-end function
#ProudlyAspen
#AspenWeCare
#MakingEveryDayMandelaDay
In the build up to 2018 Mandela International Day our fantastic teams in Dublin, Ireland have been out and about making a difference.
#aspenmandeladay
#livingthelegacy
Jackie Tau with founders of the Goldilocks and the Bear Foundation Nic de Beer & Dr
@RenataSchoeman
and
@brucebusiness
at the
#gb4adhd
Art Auction to support in providing support for various mental health barriers to education to children from underprivileged schools
#AspenWeCare
Congratulations to Mr. Stavros Nicolaou and Mr. Kuseni Dlamini, esteemed leaders at Aspen Pharmacare, for being recognized in the Health and Wellness Category of this year's
@MIPAD100
. We are proud of their commitment to advancing healthcare and wellness globally.
#MIPAD100
Branson Bosman, Head of Capability and Responsible Pharmacist, recently represented Aspen Pharmacare as a keynote speaker at the TRACC & POMS Conference held in Cape Town.
Aspen is committed to practising responsible environmental stewardship, seeking to minimise any negative impact our operations have on the environment and to comply with laws, regulations and other environmental requirements.
#AspenWeCare
#2021WED
#GenerationRestoration
We are pleased to announce the contract manufacturing agreement to initiate local production of Human Insulin for Novo Nordisk at our Gqeberha based sterile manufacturing facility. Read the full press release on our website
#ProuldyAspen
#AspenWeCare
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@MrumaDrive
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All the best for 2019!
Aspen's Jackie Tau with former First Lady Gugu Mtshali and CEO of Project Literacy at the launch of a new decade for Project Literacy. Aspen has been a longstanding supporter of Project Literacy in their
#RunHometoRead
program.
#AspenWeCare
On 28 September, to mark the end of International Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, Aspen Pharmacare sponsored a ‘Go gold for kids with cancer’ event at the newly opened Paediatric Oncology Ward in the Port Elizabeth Provincial Hospital (PEPH).
#healthcare
#wecare
#Gold4Hope
Don't miss eNCA's interview with Stephen Saad, Aspen Group CE today on DSTV 403, at 10h00 and again at 15h30. Sally Burdett will be unpacking Aspen's role in supplying a COVID vaccine solution for South Africans and the continent.
#eNCA
#ProudlyAspen
#wearevaccination
“We are here to see how we can save lives. I am pleased to inform you that Johnson & Johnson has agreed to make 250 million vaccines available to Africa with 30 million for South Africans." H.E. President Cyril Ramaphosa
#AspenWeCare
#WaAreVaccination
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#medical
industry in Africa? Become a part of the medical industry ecosystem & catapult your business into the big league with the 2023 Aspen GIBS Route-to-Market Challenge.
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Staff from Aspen's HQ in Durban, South Africa recently participated in a number of initiatives in aid of International Mandela Day which is celebrated each year on 18 July.
#AspenWeCare
#ProudlyAspen
#aspenmandeladay
Aspen was recently awarded 1st Overall by
@PMRafrica
in the PMR National Survey on Corporate Care in South Africa in the category of manufacturers.
#AspenWeCare
Agnès Pannier-Runacher, France’s State Secretary to the Minister of Economy and Finance and Aspen’s Lorraine Hill officiated at the inauguration of the manufacturing facility at Notre Dame de Bondeville on 17 June 2019
Aspen Pharmacare kicked off the Ima Nathi Soccer Development Programme in association with the South African Football Association and the New Brighton Football Association in New Brighton, Gqeberha on 1 December.
#AspenWeCare
#ProudlyAspen
#MakingEveryDayMandelaDay