Medical Action Myanmar

What Medical Action Myanmar does

Medical Action Myanmar (MAM) is a Netherlands-registered non-profit healthcare organization that has delivered free medical services across Myanmar since its founding in 2009 by Dr. Frank Smithuis and Dr. Ni Ni Tun. The organization operates an integrated service network of 12 fixed clinics, 59 mobile medical teams, and more than 2,100 community health workers (CHWs) that together reach conflict-affected and underserved populations where state health infrastructure is absent or non-functional. Clinical priorities center on HIV, tuberculosis, malaria, malnutrition, rickets, and family planning, with the organization recording approximately 1,993,284 patient consultations in 2024 and maintaining roughly 7,000 patients on antiretroviral therapy with a reported 85% eight-year survival rate.

MAM's service delivery model combines fixed-facility clinical care with mobile outreach and a volunteer-extended CHW backbone that materially lowers cost-per-patient-reached. A long-standing research collaboration with the University of Oxford (Mahidol-Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit / MOCRU, established 2013) supports operational research, surveillance, and treatment-protocol development. The organization has demonstrated emergency-response capacity, deploying 62 staff in response to the March 2025 Myanmar earthquake and operating COVID-19 oxygen centers and humanitarian-crisis response operations in 2021. Cumulative operational scale includes 588,617 mosquito nets distributed and 1,579,104 patients tested for malaria between 2011 and 2020.

MAM is funded primarily by institutional donors — including the Global Fund, USAID, and UNICEF — alongside private donations channelled through its ANBI-registered Dutch foundation (Stichting Medical Action Myanmar). As a non-profit, all services are provided free at the point of care; sustainability depends on multi-year grant cycles, emergency humanitarian appeals, and individual giving. The organization employs approximately 1,200 paid medical and support staff, with the 2,100+ CHW workforce acting as a volunteer-extended layer rather than paid headcount. The non-profit revenue model means there is no conventional product pricing, customer acquisition, or top-line growth in the commercial sense — operational scale is instead a function of donor commitments and humanitarian funding cycles.

Name

Medical Action Myanmar

Legal name

Stichting Medical Action Myanmar

Website

https://mam.org.mm

Company type

Private

Founded year

2009

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Medical Action Myanmar is a Netherlands-registered non-profit operating 12 clinics, 59 mobile medical teams, and 2,100+ community health workers to deliver free HIV, TB, malaria, and primary healthcare services to vulnerable populations across Myanmar, funded by institutional donors.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Humanitarian Healthcare Services

NAICS

Other Individual and Family Services (624190), Individual and Family Services (6241)

SIC

Services-Misc Health & Allied Services, Nec (8090), Services-Social Services (8300)

akta.pro primary industry

Maternal, Newborn, Child & Adolescent Health (MNCAH) NGOs (HLAJAKAG)

akta.pro secondary industries

Maternal, Newborn & Child Health (MNCH) Programs (BPADAIAC), Primary Care for Underserved Populations (e.g., migrant, homeless, refugee clinics) (HLAFAGAN)

Keywords

• Primary healthcare services
• Community health workers
• Nonprofit healthcare
• Mobile health clinics
• Disease control programs

Headquarters

HQ city

Yangon

HQ country

Myanmar (Burma)

HQ region

Asia

Offices3 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Supply Chain, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Institutional Donor Funding: Major funding from institutional donors including Global Fund, USAID, UNICEF, Elton John AIDS Foundation, Access to Health Fund, and various foundations. These funds support the clinic network, mobile teams, and community health worker programs.
2. Private Donations: Private donations from individuals, tax-deductible through ANBI status in the Netherlands and charity registration in the UK. These donations are used directly to treat additional patients as the network infrastructure is already funded by institutional donors.
3. Partnership-based Funding: Funding through international partnerships with organizations including Mercury Phoenix Trust, Sanni Foundation, CW Asia Foundation, Partners for Equity, and Myriad USA for specific health programs.

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels5 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Medical Action Myanmar provides free primary healthcare, disease control, and maternal and child health services to vulnerable and underserved populations across Myanmar through a network of 12 fixed clinics, mobile medical teams, and a community health worker program of more than 2,100 workers.

Product overview

Medical Action Myanmar (MAM) is a non-governmental healthcare organization operating a network of 12 clinics, over 2,100 Community Health Workers, and 59 mobile medical teams across Myanmar. The organization provides free healthcare services targeting poor, marginalized, and vulnerable populations through integrated primary care that combines HIV/AIDS treatment (approximately 7,000 patients on antiretroviral therapy), Tuberculosis care, Malaria treatment and research, malnutrition screening, rickets treatment, sexual health and family planning services, and COVID-19 response. MAM also operates the Myanmar Oxford Clinical Research Unit (MOCRU) in partnership with Oxford University for clinical research. Healthcare services are provided free of charge, with all costs including hospital referrals and transport covered by the organization.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Fixed clinic healthcare services

Quantifiable outcome

• 85% survival rate after 8 years for HIV patients on treatment
• +4 more outcomes

Named customers6 records

Segments7 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

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Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Partnerships

Four partnerships are on record, tiered core and supporting.

• Oxford University (MOCRU)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2013Myanmar Oxford Clinical Research Unit (MOCRU) established in 2013 as a joint initiative. MOCRU has a strong link with MAM's infrastructure of 10 clinics and 2,000 village health workers. The unit conducts clinical research on malaria elimination, TB treatment, HIV care, rickets, and fever management. Academic leadership shared office with MAM in Yangon. Led by Professor Frank Smithuis.
• National Tuberculosis Programme (NTP)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerGovernment TB program that MAM refers patients to for diagnosis and treatment. Community volunteers trained by MAM refer presumptive TB patients to NTP for diagnosis and treatment follow-up.
• SEVA FoundationsupportingStrategic or Co-development PartnerEye care foundation that collaborated with MAM for training workshops to screen, diagnose, and treat CMV retinitis patients.
• Friends of MAM (UK)supportingChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorUK-based friends organization facilitating donations to MAM (Charity number 1171847).

Scale indicators13 records

Recent moves8 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• HealthNet TPO: Dutch-registered health NGO operating in fragile states including Myanmar, focused on primary healthcare, community health workers, and HIV/TB/malaria programs. Closely comparable legal/donor structure (Dutch ANBI), mission, and integrated disease platform.
• Partners in Health: Non-profit providing free, high-quality healthcare to impoverished communities globally through hospitals, clinics, and community health workers. Directly comparable model of integrated primary care for underserved populations, academic medical partnerships, and CHW-driven delivery.
• Malteser International: German humanitarian organization providing healthcare in developing and conflict-affected countries with focus on primary care, community health, and disease control. Comparable integrated health service model serving vulnerable populations in Asia.
• Médecins du Monde: International humanitarian medical NGO providing care to vulnerable populations in conflict and low-resource settings. Comparable integrated primary care model, free services, and CHW-based delivery in Asia.
• Burnet Institute: Australian medical research and public health NGO working on malaria, tuberculosis, HIV, and maternal/child health in the Asia-Pacific. Closely comparable integrated research-plus-delivery model and disease focus.

Regional players

• Shoklo Malaria Research Unit (SMRU): Oxford-affiliated malaria research unit operating on the Thailand-Myanmar border with strong overlap to MAM's malaria research through MOCRU and similar community-based malaria elimination approach in the same region.

Broad incumbents

• Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF): Large international medical humanitarian NGO providing emergency healthcare in conflict and low-resource settings globally. MAM's founders both spent 15+ years at MSF Myanmar, and the organizations share mission, free-service delivery model, and operating geographies.
• Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI): Global health organization working on HIV, TB, and malaria treatment access in low-income countries. Comparable institutional donor base and overlapping disease focus, though CHAI is more systems/market-shaping than direct clinic delivery.
• International Rescue Committee (IRC): Large humanitarian organization providing health, education, and emergency response in conflict-affected countries including Myanmar. Overlaps with MAM on primary healthcare delivery and community health worker programs in crisis settings.

Emerging players

• AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF): Global nonprofit providing HIV/AIDS treatment and care in 45+ countries with similar free ART model and focus on underserved populations. Comparable HIV treatment program structure though AHF operates more clinic-focused models.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/medicalactionmyanmar

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Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

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M&A

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