Afya Limited Announces that Whitebook was ranked as one of the 10 Top Apps in Brazil by Consumer Spend in 2020
January 15 2021 - 8:54AM
Afya Limited, or Afya (Nasdaq: AFYA), today announces that its
clinical decision software, WhiteBook, an app created by PEBMED,
was ranked as one of the 10 Top Apps in Brazil by consumer spend in
2020 for the fifth year in a row.
App Annie conducted the study, a website
specialized in app analytics and app market data that combined data
from iOS and Google Play that evaluates more than 8 million mobile
app per year. In the top ten WhiteBook was among great apps such as
Tinder, YouTube, Netflix, TikTok and others.
Whitebook is a mobile and web application
software that helps doctors and medical students to make faster and
more accurate clinical decisions on a daily practice. It provides
medical calculators, images and updated content, including
prescriptions, conducts, clinical scores, procedures, lab exams,
and others, for more than 28 specialties. It operates on a freemium
based model with blocked features and content available only to
paid subscribers. Whitebook has over 161 thousand monthly active
users and over 106 thousand subscribers, as of today.
Afya’s other latest news:
- December 23, 2020:
Afya Limited announced the authorization of a new share buyback
program for up to 1,015,844 of its outstanding Class A
common shares in the open market, based on prevailing market
prices, or in privately negotiated transactions, over a period
beginning on December 24, 2020 continuing until the earlier of the
completion of the repurchase or December 31, 2021, depending upon
market conditions.The share buyback program will take place in
accordance with the conditions established by the Board of
Directors on 16 December 2020. Afya intends to repurchase the
shares to execute the Stock Option Program for the executives of
the company. The Board of Directors of Afya also authorized
management to appoint BofA Securities, Inc. as its agent to
purchase Securities on its behalf in the open market.
- December 30, 2020:
the Secretary of Regulation and Supervision of Higher Education of
the Ministry of Education (“MEC”) granted the authorization to
operate the undergraduate medicine course in Cruzeiro do Sul in the
State of Acre, under Mais Médicos II program.This medical school is
the second authorized school in connection with the Mais Médicos
program for Afya and will contribute 50 seats to our operating
seats base. Afya strengths its position as the largest medical
education group in Brazil with 2,303 approved medical seats and
will start the operation of one more Mais Medicos campuses with
quality, ensured by its standardized curriculum, innovative and
data oriented methodology and cutting – edge platform.
About Afya Afya is a leading medical education
group in Brazil based on number of medical school seats, delivering
an end-to-end physician-centric ecosystem that serves and empowers
students and physicians to transform their ambitions into rewarding
lifelong experiences from the moment they join us as medical
students through their medical residency preparation, graduation
program, continuing medical education activities and offering
digital products to help doctors enhance their healthcare services
through their whole career.
Contact: Investor Relations: ir@afya.com.br
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