2021 Africa Webinar

Pharmaceutical Production

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Covid 19 has shown the importance of self-sufficiency in the domestic market to ensure access, equity and affordability to essential medicines to African population and to promote pharmaceutical export
- Covid 19 has put additional demands on health systems & governments had to cope with supply constraints due to industrial shutdowns, export restrictions, transport disruptions etc

Local production ensure equitable availability of essential & affordable medicines with health commodities and effective technology and of high quality. It would ensure Accessible, Available, Affordable, Safe, Effective Medicines

Governments have shown different types of initiatives to support the pharmaceutical production, proof of integrated political will
- Establishment of health insurance to improve demand and meet market needs
- Improvement of the business environment
- Include all the different stakeholders such as other ministries (Finance, Economy, Health etc), Private stakeholders, International actors (ONUDI, African Union etc)

Audience

Dr John Mangwiro, Deputy Minister of Health and Child Care, Zimbabwe
Monsieur Achille Batonon, Technical Advisor for Partnership and Health Policy, Ministry of Health, Benin
Monsieur Habib Ganfon, Pharmaceutical Advisor, Ministry of Health Benin
Dr. Dime Anne Victoire, Pharmaceutical Production Manager, Ministry of Health Cameroon
Danielle Ngo Ndje, Ministry of Health, Cameroon
Dr. Duncan Rachel, Director of Pharmacy, Ministry of Health of Cote d’Ivoire
Dr Christian Herve Doudouho, Ministry of Health Cote d’Ivoire
Fred NGAKIENI, Director of Information and Communication Technologies, Ministry of Health, Republic of Congo
Dr Hassan Moussa Hassan, Pharmacautical Inspector, Ministry of Health, Djibouti
Sufyan Abdulber, advisor, Ministry of Health of Ethiopia
Dr Tracy Njonjo, Advisor, Ministre of Health of Kenya
Dr Hanitra Ravelojaona, Director of the Madagascar Medicines Agency, Ministry of Public Health of Madagascar
Geoffrey Kadewere, Director of Health Support & Services, Ministry of Health of Malawi
Dr Beerdarshan Singh CAUSSY, Director Health Services, Ministry of Health of Mauritius
Dr Lovena Preeyadarshini Veerapa-Mangroo, Community Physician, Ministry of Health of Mauritius
Lazarus.Indongo, Director of Pharmacy, Ministry of Health Namibia
Dr. John Oladejo, Director, Health Emergency Preparedness & Response, Nigeria Centre for Disease Control
Charles Karangwa, Ag. Director general, Rwanda FDA
Pr Myriam Khrouf, Director of Pharmacy and Medicines, Minister of Health, Tunisia
Professeur Anis KLOUZ, CEO, Siphat Tunisia (Pharmaceutical Industries Company of Tunisia)
Okuna Neville Oteba, Commissioner Health Services, Pharmaceuticals And Natural Medicines, Ministry Of Health-Uganda