Africa’s Health Security Rests on Local Medicine Production: 'Do Your Own Model'
Africa’s Health Security Rests on Local Medicine Production: 'Do Your Own Model'
Medicine security is dependent on you being in control of your medicine, and the best way to be in control of medicine is that you make your medicine [...]. African governments must deliberately invest in the development of natural resources available in Africa for our own vaccines.
#AfricanCurrents sat with Professor Martins Emeje, Director-General & Chief Executive, Nigeria Natural Medicine Development Agency (NNMDA), to discuss how Africa can achieve its "second independence," develop its own pharmaceutical and vaccine manufacturing using local resources and traditional medicine knowledge to achieve health security, economic transformation, and self-sufficiency, rather than relying on imports.
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