The development marks an important step in addressing the continent’s reliance on imported treatments and vaccines
The human toll of non-communicable diseases is huge and rising. These illnesses end the lives of approximately 41 million of the 56 million people who die every year – and three quarters of them are in the developing world.
NCDs, once seen as illnesses of the wealthy, now have a grip on the poor. Disease, disability and death are perfectly designed to create and widen inequality – and being poor makes it less likely you will be diagnosed accurately or treated. In low-income countries NCDs – typically slow and debilitating illnesses – are seeing a fraction of the money needed being invested or donated. Attention remains focused on the threats from communicable diseases, yet cancer death rates have long sped past the death toll from malaria, TB and HIV/Aids combined.
Ways to increase Africa’s drug and vaccine manufacturing capacity were discussed at the International Conference on Public Health in Africa, Rwanda, 13 December 2022.“We still need a comprehensive strategy to support local manufactures,” said Yenew Kebede Tebeje, head of laboratory systems and networks at the Africa Centres for Disease Control, which has been cooperating with MASciR to make the Moroccan diagnostic kits available in other African countries.
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