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"Africa has inaugurated its own drug regulator, the African Medicines Agency (AMA), after ten years in the works. The agency aims to make drug development more relevant to African populations, whose genetic diversity is rarely reflected in global research, and harmonize regulation across its nations. The continent also faces rapid population growth and urbanization, and an upheaval in international funding. ..."
"After more than a decade of planning, the launch of the African Medicines Agency (AMA) is being celebrated in Mombasa, Kenya, this week at the Seventh Biennial Scientific Conference on Medical Products Regulation in Africa. The agency’s establishment marks a pivotal moment in Africa’s public health, at a time when the need for biomedical research conducted in Africa, focused on African health problems, has never been greater. ..."
Africa finally has its own drug-regulation agency — and it could transform the continent’s health "If it gets things right, the first major regulator of medicines to launch for 30 years could empower Africa to tackle African challenges around health and disease."
Failure is not an option for Africa’s newly launched medicines agency "The inequitable distribution of vaccines during the COVID-19 pandemic was the final proof of the need for more home-grown manufacturing and regulatory capacity across Africa."
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