Guardians of the Nation: How Ascent Capital’s just-in-time equity investment has shaped Guardian Health into Uganda’s largest pharmacy chain

Anthony Natif is a special kind of guy in all ways. If you met him on the street, you wouldn’t tell he is the brain behind the ever-expanding Guardian Health brand of pharmacies- I am sure there is one in your Kampala neighbourhood and if you have travelled, you have seen a couple of them spring up in a number of out-of-Kampala towns; Jinja, Mbarara, Gulu, …. to be exact. But behind the bespectacled eyes and often dreaded hair, is an oncology pharmacist, with a passion and a dream to transform Uganda’s health care. Oncology Pharmacists are a special kind…