LUSAKA— Rwanda has been selected to host the headquarters of the African Medicines Agency (AMA) by the Executive Council meeting in Lusaka.
AMA will enhance capacity of state parties and RECs to regulate medical products, to improve Africa’s access to quality safe, and efficacious medical products.
It will also support the creation of an enabling environment for pharmaceutical manufacturing on the continent.
AMA will be the second specialized health agency of the African Union after the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC).
At the same time the African Union Commission Chairperson Moussa Faki, called upon all Member States and partners, to support the African Union and its Africa CDC to successfully implement and ensure health security as embodied in Africa’s New Public Health Order.
Faki spoke at the “Strengthening Public Health Emergency Operating Centres in Africa” event held in Lusaka noting that PHEOC, are key to the way we prepare for and respond to health emergencies.
“The work of Africa CDC is guided by our Agenda 2063 which aspires to build the Africa We Want. Our Africa CDC is one of the key institutions that we rely upon to deliver on the vision of Agenda 2063. A healthy mind in a healthy body.”
Source: NAM NEWS NETWORK