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Diamniadio, Nov. 28 (APS) – Participants in the Galen Africa Forum insisted Wednesday on training human resources and regulating the pharmaceutical sector.
These concerns were expressed during the panel on "Universal access to medicines and other products" on the second day of the Galen Africa Forum.
Speaking of this regulatory work, Abdourahmane Diallo, Minister-Counselor for Public Health of the Republic of Guinea, explained that his country is in the process of "setting up an evaluation committee of wholesale distributors".
"We had more than a hundred in Guinea, the idea is not to reduce the number but to regulate," he explained, "we stopped giving approvals, and now we'll assign them according to needs and standards ".
For Martha Smit, a member of the Life Sciences Group in Johannesburg, "education allows people to know what products they have access to".
She called for regulatory harmonization to "create an effective way" to promote universal access to medicines.
Professor Paul Lavany, director of Empover School of Health in India, notes that at the national level and at the international level, "products change, so human resources must be well trained".
"Countries need services that work continuously for the people, we need continuous training, we started working in 25 countries for that," he said.
For his part, Mabingué Ngom, Regional Director of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) in West and Central Africa, emphasized the importance of family planning.
"Family planning remains a lever that needs to be addressed to influence all other diseases and health issues.It is important to invest in reproductive health," he said.
"We need resources, there is no health without products and medicines, and a massive effort must be made to change the situation on the ground," said Ngom.
According to him, "there is no chance for achieving sustainable development goals if we do not address the issue of drugs especially reproductive health".
SKS / OID / BK
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