CAMI 19- Round Table on Pharmaceutical Industries

ALGIERS, 28 March 2011 – “Improving access to essential medicines – What role for African pharmaceutical industry?” was the title of a Round Table organized by UNIDO – in response to a request from the Government of Algeria  – on the occasion of the Conference of African Ministers of Industry (CAMI 19), held in Algiers, 27-31 March 2010. Policy-makers, medicines regulators, development agents and, in particular, pharmaceutical producers from various African regions shared insights on the sector’s potential to help ease the access-to-drugs challenge in Africa beyond the three big pandemics (HIV/Aids, malaria, tuberculosis).

In the deliberations particular attention was paid to the aspirations and outstanding action needs of the Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Plan for Africa (PMPA), adopted by African Heads of State in 2007. The necessity to overcome disconnects being observed between the public health and industrial development perspectives resulted in explicit recommendations to support the revision of the PMPA and the incorporation of business development considerations in a modified action plan as well as in the explicit inclusion of the pharmaceutical industry as a priority sector in the implementation strategy of AIDA (Accelerated Industrial Development for Africa).


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Juergen Reinhardt
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