Addis Ababa, Ethiopia | Xinhua | Experts have called on African countries to expedite the local manufacturing of pharmaceutical products amid the continent’s dependence on externally manufactured medicines. The experts made the call during a virtual meeting hosted by the UN Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA)’s AfCFTA(African Continental Free Trade Area)-anchored …
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Buliisa, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Health facilities in Buliisa have been hit by shortages of essential medicines and supplies. The most affected are Biiso health center IV, Butiaba health center III, Buliisa health center IV, Kihungya health center III, Avogara health center III, Kigwera health center III and Buliisa general …
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Dar es Salaam, Tanzania | Xinhua | Experts from the member states of the East African Community (EAC) on Wednesday began a two-day meeting aimed at identifying investment incentives for antibiotics production in the region. Jean Baptiste Havugimana, the EAC director of Productive Sectors, told the meeting in Tanzania’s northern city …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The number of adults aged 30-79 years with hypertension has increased from 650 million to 1.28 billion in the last 30 years. However, nearly half of these people did not know they had hypertension. This is according to the first comprehensive global analysis of trends …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Private healthcare providers want the government to allow them access medicines and sundries through the public medicines procuring agency, National Medical Stores (NMS). This comes amidst piling complaints against private healthcare providers charging exorbitantly for their services, which came to the limelight when hospitals started …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The police have uncovered a consignment of medicines from a private clinic in Nansana-Gganda in Wakiso district. The medicines which were found in Broch medical services had labels from Joint Medical Stores Nsambya, Government of Uganda, and USAID. Kampala Metropolitan Deputy police spokesperson Luke Owoyesigyire …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT & URN | National Medical Stores (NMS) has hit back at accusations of improper conduct leveled against them by parliament, arguing that they are not backed by facts. NMS said it was particularly alarmed by concerns by Members of Parliament (MPs) that the institution is not using …
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Cipla Quality Chemical Industries Limited has been approved to market antiretrovirals and malaria medicines to the ECOWAS and ZAZIBONA regions Kampala, Uganda | Julius Businge | Cipla Quality Chemical Industries Limited (CiplaQCIL) recently acquired approval to manufacture and distribute lifesaving medicines to the ECOWAS and ZAZIBONA regions in Africa. The company was …
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Kampala, Uganda | Khisa Isaac | The National Medical Stores (NMS) has called upon all government health facilities to submit their medicine requests within the set deadlines according to the Store’s delivery schedule to enhance availability of medicines in the country. “Currently, we serve over 3,000 health facilities across the …
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The Hague, Netherlands | AFP | While the world waits for a coronavirus vaccine, medicines used to deal with the symptoms of the disease are increasingly in critically short supply in Europe, the worst-hit continent. From sedatives needed to intubate patients struggling to breathe to anti-malarial drugs heavily backed by US …
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