Africa Is Building Drug Factories - Now It Needs Enough Buyers

Africa Is Building Drug Factories - Now It Needs Enough Buyers

[Independent (Kampala)] Africa is pouring money into pharmaceutical manufacturing as governments seek to reduce dependence on imported medicines. The bigger challenge may be finding enough buyers to keep the factories running.

Africa is building drug factories; Now it needs enough buyers

  About 70% to 80% of medicines consumed in Africa are imported, according to the Access to Medicine Foundation   ANALYSIS | PATRICIA AKANKWATSA |  Africa is pouring money into pharmaceutical manufacturing as governments seek to reduce dependence on imported medicines. The bigger challenge may be finding enough buyers to keep the factories running. About 70% … The post Africa is building drug factories; Now it needs enough buyers appeared first …