Africa

Manufacturing pharmaceutical ingredients in Nigeria
Global Health
 // December 19, 2024

Manufacturing pharmaceutical ingredients in Nigeria...

Poor-quality medical products are all too common in Africa, where substandard and falsified medicines kill nearly 500,000 people each year, according to the United Nations. The continent also has the highest prevalence of poor-quality medicines among low- and middle-income countries at 18.7 percent.

In Nigeria, the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), the national regulating authority for medical products, is prioritizing local production of medicines to ensure a safer supply of quality-assured medical products to protect patients and communities across the country and continent.

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Mopa Esuga
Manufacturing pharmaceutical ingredients in Nigeria
Global Health
 // December 19, 2024

Manufacturing pharmaceutical ingredients in Nigeria...

Poor-quality medical products are all too common in Africa, where substandard and falsified medicines kill nearly 500,000 people each year, according to the United Nations. The continent also has the highest prevalence of poor-quality medicines among low- and middle-income countries at 18.7 percent.

In Nigeria, the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), the national regulating authority for medical products, is prioritizing local production of medicines to ensure a safer supply of quality-assured medical products to protect patients and communities across the country and continent.

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Mopa Esuga
last mile vaccine manufacturing
Medicines
 // May 05, 2021

Manufacturing COVID-19 vaccines in Africa

While the global vaccination effort to curb the spread of COVID-19 continues to ramp up worldwide, access to COVID-19 vaccines, particularly in low- and middle-income countries, remains staggeringly low. In fact, low- and middle-income countries received less than one percent of available doses.

Dr. Perrer Tosso
Perrer Tosso, Ph.D.
Girls in Science
USP Leadership
 // March 10, 2017

There is Room for Girls in Science

I think girls everywhere would like to see the day when we do not talk about great women scientists but just great scientists. Being a woman shouldn’t make your achievements any more or less impressive ~ Serena Piervincenzi

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USP Guest
African Women in Health and Science
USP Leadership
 // March 03, 2017

Building the Pipeline: African Women in Health and Science...

Although women comprise a majority of the global health workforce, they are under-represented at the decision-making level of global policy and governance. This workforce pipeline challenge was a focus of recent remarks by the President of Mauritius, Her Excellency Ameenah Gurib-Fakim, during an event hosted by USP’s CePAT in Ghana to celebrate African women leaders in pharmacuetical regulatory affairs.

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USP's Patrick Lukulay explains work to improve drug quality in Africa
Global Health
 // November 12, 2015

Removing Barriers to Improve Drug Quality in Africa...

Patrick Lukulay, USP’s VP of GHIP–Africa, discusses plans to leverage his new post in Accra, Ghana to advance pharmaceutical quality in Africa. Countering fallacies in drug quality through advocacy and working to help build an enabling environment that can sustain systems for effective regulation of medical products, he says, are needed for this to happen.

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Latifa Boyce