Details for the 3rd Webinar to take place on 12 May 2020

Join Us for third installment of the Webinar series designed to help galvanise African pharmaceutical industrial capacity to supply medical products needed to combat COVID-19.  

The objectives of the 3rd webinar are: The African continent depends on imports for over 80% of its medicines needs and in most sub-Saharan countries 100% of its vaccines, health technologies and medical devices. This situation is not sustainable.

It is against this background that AUDA-NEPAD is organising a series of webinars, which was launched on 13th April 2020, and its aimed at galvanising African industrial capacity to produce the much-needed pharmaceuticals and medical supplies to respond to Covid19 and future pandemics. The focus of the third meeting will be on the importance of building local pharmaceutical capabilities as a means of contributing to medicines security in Africa.

• To discuss the overall continental leadership vision for local pharmaceutical production;
•  the issues of political will, national vision and regional strategies.
• Examine the issue of policy coherence across sectors, and
• Coordination within and between national governments for seamless execution.

See below, information on the next session:

Topic: Access to medicines – A national and continental security issue

When: 12 May 2020

Time: 3PM SAST (1pm GMT) 

Where: Online

For registration please go to http://www.africapharmaconf.com/site/webinar/ or contact any of the persons below:

Dr Janet Byaruhanga

Senior Programme Officer - Public Health, AUDA-NEPAD Agency | +27603526002 |JanetB@nepad.org

Mr Bankole Eniola

Executive Director, DFS Africa | +44 7850131080 | Bankole@developmentfinancesummit.com

For media queries contact:

Ms Mwanja Ng’anjo

AUDA-NEPAD Communications | +27 11 256 3600 | Mwanjan@nepad.org