Zandile Khumalo gets up before sunrise on the first Monday of every month. She prepares breakfast for her family and then hurries off to the taxi rank. It's an hour's walk and she needs to get there in good time to catch the shuttle to her nearest clinic. Zandile needs her medicine for a long standing health condition, and she has to get medicine for her ageing, sickly father. It's an important monthly ritual, the journey to the clinic  and Zandile does it knowing her medicines are there, ready and waiting. In Johannesburg, Mary Smith has also got up early. Her young daughter Rebecca has been up all night with a fever, and Mary has managed to get an emergency appointment with her doctor before his packed schedule begins. After a consultation, Mary hurries to her pharmacy with the doctor’s script, and within hours to taking her medicine, Rebecca is settling.

These “healthcare moments of truth” are played out by hundreds of thousands of people around the country, every day. And no matter where or who they are, they share a common need: to access healthcare to make them well, and keep them well.

And this is what UTi Pharma is committed to: making sure people everywhere have the medicine and healthcare products they need to keep them well. UTi Pharma doesn’t make medicine but its systems, technology, a global and local web of pharma grade warehouse facilities, fleet of vehicles, and passionate people make sure that patients always get the original quality medicine they need, when and where they need it.  UTi Pharma has developed its  business hand-in-hand with many of today's leading pharmaceutical companies, providing them – and millions of patients like Zandile Khumalo and Mary Smith – with value-for-money, accessible and reliable healthcare.