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The African Union is in the process of creating the African Medicines Agency (similar to the European Medicines Agency) to facilitate continent-wide regulation of medicines, but so far, few nations have backed the plan, writes Francis Aboagye-Nyame.
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Four factors blocking medicines being manufactured in Africa
26 Apr 2021
Setting up a continent-wide medicine regulator could be crucial to getting Africa’s people the treatments and Covid vaccines they need. Here’s why more countries need to put their weight behind it
As Covid-19 began to spread around the globe in March 2020, drug supplies ironically shrank, because of the pandemic’s effect on global supply chains.
The Chinese and Indian supply and export contractions exposed sub-Saharan Africa’s vulnerability to variation in the supply of medical products because of the dependence of these countries on imports (which make up 70% to 90% of their medicines).
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