The African continent has approximately 375 drug makers serving over 1.1 billion people. When one compares this figure to 10,500 drug manufacturers in India and 5,000 in China for a population of 1.4 billion each, it becomes quite apparent that there is significantly limited local manufacturing on the African continent. The consequence of this is […]

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Amongst low- and middle-income countries worldwide, the African region has the highest prevalence of poor-quality medicines with an 18.7% prevalence of substandard and falsified medicines. These challenges have, in part, been attributed to Africa’s poor local manufacturing capacity and weak compliance of local manufacturers with Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP). In Africa, very few local manufacturers […]

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A third of the world’s population – a large proportion being in Africa – cannot access essential medicines which are vital for the delivery of quality health services. Major factors driving this medicine deficiency include poor management practices and unsuitable storage conditions for medicines, as well as poor storage infrastructure. As a result, medicine stock […]

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Globally, disease outbreaks have more than tripled since 1980, with 1307 epidemic events between 2011 and 2017. Cholera was the biggest contributor to this, with 308 events. Since mid-2021, the global situation has further deteriorated with an acute upsurge of cholera cases, which has put one billion people in 43 countries at risk, according to […]

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Laboratory is one of the core capacities that Africa must develop to achieve resilient health systems. Laboratory services play a major role in all the key processes of detection, assessment, response, notification, and monitoring of public health events. Yet, for a long time, laboratory services were not considered a priority for most resource-limited healthcare systems […]

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