AFRICA WEBINAR · HEALTHCARE · 2021 · REPLAY AVAILABLE
Pharmaceutical Production
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 indus
Session program
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Key takeaways
- 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)
Countries represented
Benin
Cameroon
Congo Republic Of The
Côte d'Ivoire
Djibouti
Ethiopia
Kenya
Madagascar
Malawi
Mauritius
Namibia
Nigeria
Rwanda
Zimbabwe
Attending experts
Alastair West
Lead Pharmaceutical Industry Expert, UNIDO
Dr. Margaret Agama-Anyetei
Head of the Health, Nutrition and Population Division of the African Union Department for Social Affairs
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
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