Making Medicines in Africa: The Political Economy of Industrializing for Local HealthMaureen Mackintosh, Geoffrey Banda, Watu Wamae, Paula Tibandebage This book is open access under a CC-BY license. The importance of the pharmaceutical industry in Sub-Saharan Africa, its claim to policy priority, is rooted in the vast unmet health needs of the sub-continent. Making Medicines in Africa is a collective endeavour, by a group of contributors with a strong African and more broadly Southern presence, to find ways to link technological development, investment and industrial growth in pharmaceuticals to improve access to essential good quality medicines, as part of moving towards universal access to competent health care in Africa. The authors aim to shift the emphasis in international debate and initiatives towards sustained Africa-based and African-led initiatives to tackle this huge challenge. Without the technological, industrial, intellectual, organisational and research-related capabilities associated with competent pharmaceutical production, and without policies that pull the industrial sectors towards serving local health needs, the African sub-continent cannot generate the resources to tackle its populations' needs and demands. Research for this book has been selected as one of the 20 best examples of the impact of UK research on development. See http://www.ukcds.org.uk/the-global-impact-of-uk-research for further details. |
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active African countries African pharmaceutical APIs artemisinin ARVs biopharmaceutical Brazil Brazilian capacity capital ceutical challenges chapter competition context costs country’s developing countries domestic market donors drugs economic enset essential medicines Ethiopia excipients export facilities factory finance foreign formulations FPPs funding Ghana global growth health sector health system HIV/AIDS implementation important improve incentives increase India Indian companies industrial development industrial policy industry associations initiatives innovation institutions investment joint ventures Kenya Lamivudine maceutical manufacturing practice ment million MNCs Mozambique Nigeria patients phar pharma pharmaceutical industry pharmaceutical manufacturing pharmaceutical production pharmaco-economic Pharmacy private sector problem-solving programme public health public procurement public sector raw materials regional regulations regulatory sources South Africa Srinivas standards strategy Sub-Saharan Africa suppliers supply tablets Tanzania technical technological capabilities tical tion trade UNIDO upgrading value-based pricing wholesalers Zimbabwe