{"id":987653991,"date":"2021-02-21T03:21:27","date_gmt":"2021-02-21T02:21:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/news\/rising-healthcare-costs-and-the-potential-of-the-african-pharmaceutical-industry\/"},"modified":"2023-10-04T14:25:21","modified_gmt":"2023-10-04T13:25:21","slug":"rising-healthcare-costs-and-the-potential-of-the-african-pharmaceutical-industry","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/news\/rising-healthcare-costs-and-the-potential-of-the-african-pharmaceutical-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"Rising healthcare costs and the potential of the African pharmaceutical industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Africa, over 80&nbsp;% of medicines are imported, mainly from India&nbsp;and China&nbsp;for generics, and from major international laboratories&nbsp;for licensed medicines. Medical equipment, masks, tests and protection are also imported, often from Asia. In other words, Covid-19 was a revelation.<\/p>\n<p>At&nbsp;with the exception of a few countries that have developed a genuine pharmaceutical industry, such as South Africa, Morocco, Tunisia&nbsp;or Egypt, which cover between 70&nbsp;% and 80&nbsp;% of their needs, for the other countries on the continent, drug manufacturers can be counted on their fingers.<\/p>\n<p>In this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jeuneafrique.com\/1123060\/economie\/tribune-quattendons-nous-pour-exploiter-lenorme-potentiel-de-lindustrie-pharmaceutique-en-afrique\/\">article<\/a>, economist Larabi Ja\u00efdi questions the failure to exploit the enormous potential of the pharmaceutical industry in Africa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Africa, over 80&nbsp;% of medicines are imported, mainly from India&nbsp;and China&nbsp;for generics, and from major international laboratories&nbsp;for licensed medicines. Medical equipment, masks, tests and protection are also imported, often from Asia. In other words, Covid-19 was a revelation. At&nbsp;with the exception of a few countries that have developed a genuine pharmaceutical industry, such as&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1633,"featured_media":987531386,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[170],"tags":[117],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987653991"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1633"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=987653991"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987653991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":987653998,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987653991\/revisions\/987653998"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/987531386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987653991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987653991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987653991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}