Making Medicines in Africa

The Political Economy of Industrializing for Local Health

Maureen Mackintosh, Geoffrey Banda, Watu Wamae, Paula Tibandebage, Maureen Mackintosh, Geoffrey Banda, Watu Wamae, Paula Tibandebage

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2016
• ISBN:
  9781137546470
• Topic: Economics
• Subtopic: Economic Policy
• Index: Economics

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.Theauthorsaim 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. Research for this book has been selected as one of the 20 best examples of the impact of UK research on development. See http://www.ukcds.org.uk/the-global-impact-of-uk-researchfor further details.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Introduction: African Industrial Development, Values and Health Care
• Part I  The Pharmaceutical Industry in Africa
• Part II  Industrialization for Health
• Part III  Industrial Policies and Health Needs
• Bibliography
• Index