African Medicines Agency Treaty Alliance (AMATA)

🚀 The African Medicines Agency is hiring for the position of the Director General! Applications are due October 1st, 2024 at 12:59 pm EAT. Learn more and apply now: https://lnkd.in/endPvhkB #AMA #AfricanMedicinesAgency #PublicHealth #RegulatoryHarmonization

As African leaders gather at the 74th session of the WHO Regional Committee for Africa #RC74AFRO, we as the African Medicines Agency Treaty Alliance (AMATA) proudly participated in today's discussions, delivering a crucial statement under Agenda Item 10: Framework for Strengthening Local Production of Medicines, Vaccines, and Other Health Technologies in the WHO African Region 2025–2035. We urged the African Union to expedite the operationalization of the African Medicines Agency #AMA and to swiftly appoint its Director General. This step is vital to ensuring rapid and equitable access to quality, safe, and effective medicines and health technologies across the continent. We also called on all AU Member States that have not yet ratified the #AMA to do so with urgency as a robust continental regulatory system is essential to improving public health and enhancing the quality of life for all Africans. See our statement here: https://lnkd.in/dvdM6T8q Together, let's work towards a healthier, more resilient Africa. 🌍💊 #AMA #AfricanUnion #WHOAFRO #LocalProduction #AfricanMedicinesAgency #PublicHealth #RC74AFRO #HealthEquity #RegulatoryHarmonization AMREF International Alliance of Patients' Organizations (IAPO) IFPMA IPSF African Regional Office (IPSF AfRO) NCD Alliance Kenya PATH Speak Up Africa AfricanUnion  University of the Witwatersrand World Health Organization AUDA NEPAD

Meet the Inaugural Board of Directors of the African Medicines Agency 🎉 The appointment of the African Medicines Agency's Board of Directors on Monday, April 22, 2024 takes the African continent closer to the realization of the #AMA. Countries represented on the Board include Benin, Egypt, the Kingdom of Lesotho and Rwanda. The Board of Directors will be chaired by Benin's Dr Yossounon CHABI, the Directeur Général de l'Agence Béninoise du Médicament et des autres produits de santé (ABRP) for the next three years. Other notable board members are Egypt's assistant Minister of Health for Public Health Projects and Initiatives Mohamed Hassani, Germina Mphoso, a Senior Pharmacist (Director Pharmaceuticals) at the Ministry of Health Lesotho and Emile Bienvenue, The Director General of Rwanda FDA. We as the African Medicines Agency Treaty Alliance (AMATA), representing patients, healthcare workers, academia, civil society,and industry congratulate you on this historic milestone 🎉 and look forward to working together in the practical operationalisation of the agency. International Alliance of Patients' Organizations (IAPO) IFPMA IPSF African Regional Office (IPSF AfRO) AMREF Speak Up Africa PATH NCD Alliance Kenya University of the Witwatersrand Association of African Universities North Africa Regional Office

The African continent has five national medicines regulatory agencies that have attained maturity level 3 either for vaccines or medicines on the WHO benchmarking tool (GBT). This means that they have achieved a stable, well-functioning, and integrated regulatory system capable of effective oversight and quality assurance for the specific area. The GBT is a tool designed to evaluate the overarching regulatory framework and the component regulatory functions (e.g. Clinical Trial Oversight, Marketing Authorization, Vigilance, Laboratory Testing,  Licensing Inspection, Marketing Surveillance and Control, Regulatory Inspection, and National Regulatory System ) through about 268 sub-indicators that may also be grouped and examined according to nine cross-cutting categories or themes, for example, quality and risk management system, Processes, Human Resources, etc. The GBT also incorporates the concept of ‘maturity level’ or ML (adapted from ISO 9004), allowing WHO and regulatory authorities to assess the overall ‘maturity’ of the regulatory system on a scale of 1 (existence of some elements of regulatory system) to 4 (operating at advanced level of performance and continuous improvement). Medicines for Africa has prepared a summary map of African nations at ML3 and their areas of maturity. #africa #health #healthcare #medicines #vaccines #publichealth #counterfeitedmedicines #substandardmedicines #leniashwenda

African leaders agreed to create a new pooled procurement mechanism for health supplies and put forward a unified Pan-African position for negotiating the global pandemic treaty. Devex’s Sara Jerving takes a look at what this would entail. #globalhealth #Africa

 At the recently concluded 37th African Union Summit, the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) announced the creation of a pooled African medicines procurement mechanism. The decision means the creation of a robust market for manufacturers and ensures the health security of all Africans The mechanism aims to spearhead a new era of predictable demand for African manufacturers, empowering them to plan for the long-term and establish a market worth over $50 billion. Read more: https://lnkd.in/dX7MkYQK

As African leaders are gathering at 37th #AUSummit, we commend Member States on the progress made in the establishment of the #AfricanMedicinesAgency since the Treaty was adopted at the #AU Assembly in 2019. To date, 27 countries have ratified the treaty. We now call for the 28 remaining AU Member States to ratify the Treaty to facilitate the implementation of the continental regulatory system benefiting patients, regulators, and healthcare systems in Africa. We also urge the AfricanUnion to establish a framework of engagement with non-state actors and to draw upon all available expertise from academia, research bodies, private sector and community and patient groups to provide technical guidance on specific areas See our statement : https://lnkd.in/dWPFvQ3S AMREF International Alliance of Patients' Organizations (IAPO) IFPMA IPSF African Regional Office (IPSF AfRO) NCD Alliance Kenya PATH Speak Up Africa University of the Witwatersrand AfricanUnion World Health Organization AUDA NEPAD Chimwemwe Chamdimba Dorothy Njagi