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Theramex
Empowering women with access to better healthcare products and treatments
Theramex is a global specialty pharmaceutical company committed to supporting women’s health needs through every stage of life. The company’s portfolio of healthcare products and treatments addresses contraception, fertility, menopause, and osteoporosis, and plans to expand into uterine health in the near-term. Theramex sells about 50 products, serving more than six million patients in 57 countries worldwide.1
Conditions such as menopause and osteoporosis—a disease that develops when bone mass and mineral density decrease—can have a significant impact on women’s everyday lives. Yet the traditional healthcare system underserves and undertreats both conditions. About 73% of women across the five largest countries in the EU who suffer from menopause symptoms receive no treatment2; and roughly the same percentage of women receive no treatment for osteoporosis3. Undiagnosed or undertreated health issues can have knock-on effects on other dimensions of women’s lives, such as reducing economic empowerment and exacerbating inequality, with 63% of menopausal women saying the symptoms have negatively affected their careers4. Theramex has set out to provide treatment options and raise awareness about these issues by supporting women with the right solutions at the right time.
To help accelerate Theramex’s work, the Carlyle Capital Markets and ESG teams alongside co-investor PAI partnered with the company to negotiate an ESG-linked financing facility that ties the cost of capital to increased access for more than one million undertreated women suffering from menopause symptoms. The core focus of Theramex’s business—empowering women—extends to their own organization as well, as women comprise more than 50% of Theramex’s workforce5. Theramex is also working to improve the ESG governance of the company and is working closely with the Carlyle ESG team to build a dedicated sustainability function to drive Theramex’s ESG strategy.
“With Theramex, we invested in a business that addresses significant unmet medical needs and helps women around the world live better lives. We are excited about the partnership with Carlyle, PAI, and Theramex to advance Theramex's ESG program as part of our value creation plan in support of better care for women.”
- Lubna Qunash, a Managing Director on Carlyle’s Europe Buyout team
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1 Source: Theramex.
2 Source: BUPA, Chartered Institute for Personnel and Development.
3 Source: BUPA, Chartered Institute for Personnel and Development.
4 https://www.forthwithlife.co.uk/blog/menopause-in-the-workplace/.
5 Source: Theramex.