Novartis and the African Union (AU), the African Medical Supply Platform (AMSP) have announced a new collaboration to facilitate the source of medicines from Novartis’ portfolio of pandemic reactions to AU member states and Caricom countries.
The AMSP portal is an online marketplace that enables the provision of critical medical devices similar to COVID-19 in Africa. It evolved under the leadership of AU Special Envoy Strive Masiyiwa and was promoted through Janngo, on behalf of the African Centers for Disease Control. Prevention (CDC Africa).
The platform also evolved in partnership with the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) and the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (CEA).
This collaboration aims to help alleviate limitations of origin and logistics by ensuring effective and timely access to pandemic portfolio medicines for African and caricom governments. The AU contains 55 member states, representing all countries on the African continent, while 15 Caricom countries are eligible for the pandemic portfolio.
“Our collaboration with AMSP is a continuation of our efforts at Novartis to combat COVID-19 worldwide,” said Vas Narasimhan, CEO of Novartis. “Together, our goal is to drive and expand affordable and essential medicines in Africa to meet the pressing wishes of patients across the continent as they continue to fight this pandemic.
AMSP evolved to alleviate difficulties and open up the medical materials market to Africa, and as a component of the CDC Africa’s CoVID-19 (PACT) Testing Accelerate Association. It integrates African and approved medical providers worldwide to obtain some profitability. transparency in the acquisition and distribution of COVID-19-related materials.
“Following the list of successes of control kits, non-public protective devices and clinical control devices, the president of the African Union has expanded our mandate to incorporate revolutionary medicines to treat patients with COVID-19 in Africa,” said African Union Special Envoy Strive Masiyiwa. “As a global pharmaceutical leader, Novartis is a strategic spouse of AMSP to unlock the lack and best-performance drugs for Africans at an affordable price. “
After the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and its spread around the world, there is a shortage of diagnostic products, medical supplies and an essential medical device, such as non-public protective devices for physical health workers, masks, enthusiasts and many more. Other.
Many African governments have had serious difficulties in obtaining essential materials for their reaction activities and are facing a fierce festival with countries more industrialized by limited materials.
“As a continental organization, we work with several partners to achieve elegant and predictable access to essential medical supplies,” said Dr. John Nkengasong, director of CDC Africa. “We found that the Ebola epidemic in 2014, many others people died of Ebola but not Ebola.
This is because they did not have the essential medicines needed for treatment. With the AMSP, countries do not have to look for the home market. Prices are negotiated and set to unlock the source space ».
The portfolio of pandemic reactions of Sandoz Novartis, generic and biosimilar division of Novartis, 15 drugs: amoxicillin, ceftriaxone, clarit, colchicine, dexamethasone, dobutamine, fluconazole, heparin, levofloxacin, loperamide, pantoprazole, prednisone, prednisone.
The portfolio was presented in July 2020 and sells non-profit medicines to governments, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and other institutional clients in up to 79 countries eligible to meet the unmet urgent desires of low- and middle-income countries. for medicines to be used as a symptomatic remedy at other stages of COVID-19, eligible countries must be on the World Bank’s PFR and PRFI list 1.
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