Making Medicines in Africa: The Political Economy of Industrializing for Local Health
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Banda, Geoffrey
Tibandebage, Paula
Mackintosh, Maureen
Wamae, Watu
Language
EnglishAbstract
This book is open access under a CC-BY license. The importance of the pharmaceutical industry in Sub-Saharan Africa, its claim to policy priority, is rooted in the vast unmet health needs of the sub-continent. Making Medicines in Africa is a collective endeavour, by a group of contributors with a strong African and more broadly Southern presence, to find ways to link technological development, investment and industrial growth in pharmaceuticals to improve access to essential good quality medicines, as part of moving towards universal access to competent health care in Africa. The authors aim to shift the emphasis in international debate and initiatives towards sustained Africa-based and African-led initiatives to tackle this huge challenge. Without the technological, industrial, intellectual, organisational and research-related capabilities associated with competent pharmaceutical production, and without policies that pull the industrial sectors towards serving local health needs, the African sub-continent cannot generate the resources to tackle its populations' needs and demands.
Keywords
Life Sciences; Economics; International Relations; International Political Economy; Political Economy; Development; African Studies; African Economics; Pharmacology and ToxicologyWebshop link
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9781137571335, 9781137546470Publisher
Palgrave MacmillanPublisher website
http://www.palgrave.comPublication date and place
2015Classification
Pharmacology