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Lenias Hwenda | We have made great progress: an African Medicines Agency could be operating in six months.
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16 April 2021 | Lenias Hwenda: Let's Talk about Health in Africa - We have made progress, an African Medicines Agency could be operating within six months.
In this Podcast, Lenias Hwenda in conversation with Mrs Margareth Ndomondo-Sigonda the Head of Programmes Africa Union New Partnership for Development (AU-NEPAD) explains why Africa needs an African Medicines Agency and what such an agency would mean for African people.
Guest: Mrs Margareth Ndomondo-Sigonda Head of Programmes Africa Union New Partnership for Development (AU-NEPAD
A lot of work has been put into harmonising medicines regulations across the 55 countries of the African Union. It has been a painstaking effort driven by AU-Nepad and accelerated by the Covid-19 pandemic. Aligning laws and regulations used to ensure that medicines are safe and work as expected is the first step towards creating an African Medicines Agency with oversight over the continent's 55 countries. Realising the ambition to make medicines and vaccines requires an agency of this nature, and it is six months away from coming into effect.
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