Mozambique local production

WHO (World Health Organization) (2005) Local Production of Essential Medicines, including Antiretrovirals Issues, Challenges and Perspectives in the African Region, Report of the Regional Director, regional Committee for Africa, Maputo, Mozambique. 

Official reports show that back in 2003, the initiative to set up a pharmaceutical factory in Mozambique originally had the following stated objectives. It aimed to secure the supply of anti-retroviral medicines (ARVs) for HIV/AIDS treatment in the country, and to jump-start pharmaceutical generics manufacturing in Mozambique, enabling the fulfilment of the objectives of the national primary care and pharmaceutical policies. It also aimed to reduce the country s dependence on pharmaceutical donations and imports and to contribute to the creation of local capacity for pharmaceutical production and industrial management (de Oliveira, 2013). 

Russo, G. Banda, G. (forthcoming) Re-thinking pharmaceutical production in Africa insights horn the analysis of the local manufacturing dynamics in Mozambique and Zimbabwe, Studies in Comparative International Development. 

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