Mugwagwa, Julius;
Banda, Geoffrey;
Mkwashi, Andrew;
Mackintosh, Maureen;
(2022)
Localisation of medical manufacturing in Africa.
Institute for Economic Justice: Johannesburg, South Africa.
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Abstract
The Covid-19 pandemic has once again revealed that it is untenable that, in the majority of African countries, more than 70% of health technology requirements are imported. This moment provides an opportunity for African countries to localise medical manufacturing capacity. The localisation challenge is not only technical but encompasses local and global power dynamics spanning the political, socio-technical and economic aspects. These challenges include catching-up countries having to navigate entrenched, hegemonic, global pharmaceutical value chains, especially in innovator products, which elicit strong backlashes from incumbent companies and their governments. This report emanates from a study commissioned by the Institute for Economic Justice (IEJ), a South African-based think tank. It was carried out between August 2021 and September 2022. With the IEJ, the researchers sought to answer the following main research question: How best can African countries harness and deploy lessons from the Covid-19 pandemic and from other relevant local manufacturing experience, to develop and enhance sustainable capabilities for local manufacturing of medical health products?
| Type: | Report |
|---|---|
| Title: | Localisation of medical manufacturing in Africa |
| Publisher version: | https://www.iej.org.za/localisation-of-medical-man... |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the version of record. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | Covid-19, medical manufacturing, Africa, pharmaceutical industry |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > STEaPP |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10160615 |
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