SDG 3Equitable access, safer care, and resilient service delivery.
ABOUT SELNEXA HEALTH
A professional collective of African health systems leaders building resilient health systems for Africa
Most African facilities lose care continuity when power, connectivity, and admin systems fail. SelNexa Health is a professional collective of African trailblazers building offline-first infrastructure and a portfolio of health systems initiatives that keep care running under those constraints.
WHERE SELNEXA BEGAN
Healthcare systems should not fail because the internet does.
In health institutions across Zimbabwe, we watched healthcare workers fight two battles at once: treating patients while working around power cuts, unstable connectivity, missing records, and medicine losses that should never have happened.
Essential stock expired unnoticed. Reports arrived late or not at all. Systems built for always-on infrastructure became unreliable the moment conditions became difficult - which is exactly when health institutions needed them most.
Most digital health platforms were designed for environments with stable electricity, fast internet, and constant technical support. Rural and district healthcare facilities were expected to adapt around those assumptions.
We chose the opposite approach.
SelNexa was built from the realities of African healthcare operations outward: offline-first, resilient under low connectivity, and designed to keep functioning when infrastructure does not.
Our Mission And Vision
Our Mission
Close Africa's healthcare infrastructure gap by building sustainable, locally governed systems that improve equitable access and continuity of care.
Our Thesis
African healthcare will not be strengthened by importing fragile tools built for stable infrastructure. SelNexa Health designs from local constraints outward: offline continuity, low bandwidth resilience, local governance, and practical implementation.
Our Values
Pragmatism: Build what can survive field conditions. Sovereignty: Keep data governance close to local health leaders. Partnership: Design with institutions, communities, and implementation teams. Impact: Measure whether each initiative improves care, operations, or access.
INCLUSION & EQUITY
Leave No One Behind
We adopt the UN and AU principle of Leave No One Behind as a design requirement for every deployment.
Inclusive Digital Access
Our platform is designed for marginalized youth, rural communities, and persons with disabilities who are often excluded from high-bandwidth Silicon Valley 'ports'. Offline-first workflows, low-bandwidth operation, and accessibility-first interfaces keep care teams connected across device and connectivity constraints.
Equity by design
We co-design with local partners to ensure language, workflow, and governance realities are respected, and to build systems communities can own and sustain.
OUR DEVELOPMENT ALIGNMENT
Why this work aligns with global health priorities
SelNexa Health translates global development priorities into deployable infrastructure. We focus on the practical layer that lets health institutions continue care, protect data, coordinate resources, and report outcomes in constrained environments.
Health systems strengthening
Offline-first workflows support universal health coverage by keeping patient access, records, and essential operations available during outages.
Infrastructure and responsible innovation
FHIR-ready interoperability, local data governance, and low-bandwidth design make digital health infrastructure useful where it is usually most fragile.
Partnership for scale
Deployment is designed for facilities, ministries, NGOs, research partners, and funders who need measurable outcomes rather than presentation-stage technology.
SDG 3Equitable access, safer care, and resilient service delivery.
SDG 9African-led digital health infrastructure built for constraint.
SDG 17Institutional partnerships for deployment, evaluation, and scale.
Our Leadership Team
Healthcare and technology leaders building SelNexa Health as a long-term African health systems organization.
Keith Tafangombe
Founder & CEO | Systems Architect for African Healthcare Resilience
Keith Tafangombe is a systems architect and healthcare operator from Zimbabwe who founded SelNexa Health to build resilient digital infrastructure for African health institutions and hospitals. He architected the SelNexa Health Platform proof-of-concept at Manicaland District Hospital and leads the organization's project portfolio across infrastructure-aware health systems, AI-driven resource optimization, and field deployment.
African founder and health systems leader building from frontline infrastructure constraints, not imported assumptions.
Natalie Masvikeni
Co-Founder of ContraWise | Lead Developer at SelNexa Health
Natalie Masvikeni is the Co-Founder of ContraWise and the Lead Developer at SelNexa Health, where she leads product architecture, AI development, and full stack engineering for next-generation digital health solutions. She is a Computer Science student at Africa University with a strong foundation in frontend web development, and she has represented her university in international innovation and cybersecurity competitions, including an ISACA case study challenge where her team placed second globally.
Part of the next generation of African women building practical health technology.
Guide Chitewe
Chief Technology Officer
Offline First Architecture and AI Infrastructure
Guide leads technology strategy for the SelNexa Health Platform, with focus on distributed systems reliability, low-bandwidth optimization, and resilient deployment architecture for constrained care settings.
Builds infrastructure for the realities of African care delivery: intermittent power, low bandwidth, and local support needs.
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Dr Farisai Mawere
Chief Medical Officer
Clinical Governance & Health Systems Alignment
Dr Mawere leads clinical governance across SelNexa Health initiatives, ensuring product decisions align with frontline clinical reality, patient safety, and implementation standards for African health systems.
Clinical governance keeps next-generation innovation accountable to patient safety and health-system practice.
Credential note: clinical registration body, specialty, and institutional affiliation are pending public verification before publication.
Simbarashe Hunzvi
Chief Operating Officer
Community Engagement, Partnerships & Impact Leadership
Simbarashe Hunzvi is a civic leader and social impact advocate with extensive experience in youth leadership, community development, and socio-economic empowerment initiatives. His background includes involvement in regional and international leadership platforms focused on governance, innovation, and sustainable development. At SelNexa Health, he contributes strategic insight on community engagement, partnerships, and impact-driven leadership. His passion for systems change and inclusive development aligns strongly with the organization's mission of strengthening healthcare delivery and creating long-term social impact across African communities.
Connects community-centered implementation with partnerships, public accountability, and emerging leadership.
ORGANIZATION TIMELINE
From proof-of-concept to pilot deployment
2024 Q1
SelNexa Health founded in Harare.
2024 Q3
Platform proof-of-concept at Manicaland District Hospital.
2024 Q4
Full platform development begins.
2025
Platform build and internal testing.
2026
Pilot deployment stage with active talks across 4 markets.
ADVISORY NETWORK
Advisors
Named advisors will be published as affiliations and consent are confirmed.
Clinical Informatics Advisor
Zimbabwe clinical governance and patient safety review
Health Systems Implementation Advisor
Facility workflow, M&E design, and public-sector deployment guidance
Data Protection & Interoperability Advisor
FHIR readiness, data residency, and cross-market compliance
PLATFORM DESIGN TARGETS
What the platform is engineered to deliver
These are deployment and reliability targets for first production rollouts, not reported field outcomes.
95%+
Offline continuity replay success target
< 24h
Breach notification readiness window
FHIR
Interoperability compliance target
2G
Minimum supported network condition
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