Business Daily | by James Kamau
Inadequacies in drug production and challenges posed by counterfeit and substandard products have often crippled access to medicines in Africa.
To tackle this, the African Union (AU) called for strengthened, improved and harmonised regulation of medicines, medical products and technologies across the continent.
On February 11, 2019, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, heads of state and governments during their 32nd Ordinary Session adopted the African Medicines Agency (AMA) treaty to provide support for weak regulatory systems.
The new African Medicines Agency Treaty currently has 28 signatories, accounting for more than half of the African Union’s 55-member states…
