// February 09, 2023
Africa’s growing vaccine capacity
Manufacturing products locally for more equitable pandemic responses
Africa
// June 24, 2024
Advancing regional manufacturing in Africa: Four key takeaways from the 77th World He...
Expanding regional manufacturing in Africa relies on capable suppliers and a predictable demand. Following the World Health Assembly, we explore four ways to advance medicines manufacturing on the continent. Read the blog.
// April 19, 2024
Procuring HIV/AIDS medicines from African producers...
Expanding regional manufacturing of HIV/AIDS tests and medicines from African producers will help bolster public health across the continent.
// 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.
// 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
// 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.
// June 16, 2015
Kenya’s Lab Intensifies Fight against Poor Quality Medicines...
Kenya’s National Quality Control Laboratory (NQCL) recently attained a top international accreditation, multi-million dollar laboratory equipment for testing the quality of medicines, a new laboratory information management system, and an upgraded website.
// May 21, 2015
Ebola Encounters: Perspectives from the Bedside
USP staff had the opportunity to hear an animated and truly captivating presentation by Dr. Ian Crozier, an infectious disease physician who was infected with Ebola while treating patients during the Ebola outbreak in West Africa last year.
// February 03, 2015
USP Programs Help Tighten Africa’s Public Health Safety Net...
Poor quality medicines are the source of an alarming, but often overlooked global health crisis. A report from the International Policy Network estimates that 700,000 people die every year from fake anti-malarial and tuberculosis drugs alone.
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