African Medicines Agency

African Medicines Agency — organization developing the HINGE digital platform with partners to reduce regulatory and financial barriers for health sector investors and innovators in Africa.

2026-04-272026-10-28

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July 2026
23 JulThe Ghanaian Times
… To this end, he said the pharmaceutical manufacturing plan for the continent through the African Medicines Agency was moving from treaty commitments to practical implementation that would strengthen pharmaceutical regulation across the continent. …
At AU Extraordinary Summit: Africa leaders seek to end AIDS, TB
22 JulJoy Online
… He also announced that the African Medicines Agency is transitioning from treaty status into a fully operational institution, while a continental strategy for pharmaceutical ingredients and joint procurement is expected to boost local manufacturers. …
Mahama calls on Africa to manufacture its own medicines to end import dependence
22 JulJoy Online
… li.” President Mahama announced that plans to establish a pharmaceutical manufacturing industry for Africa are making significant progress. “The pharmaceutical manufacturing plant for Africa is no longer a mere scribble on paper,” he said, adding that the African Medicines Agency …
Mahama, WHO chief call for stronger pharmaceutical production to reduce Africa’s health dependence
22 JulThe Chronicle
… non-negotiable pillar of health security planning, on research and industry partners to develop and manufacture more diagnostics built for primary health care settings rather than tools that depend on lab infrastructure most clinics don’t have, and on the African Medicines Agency …
Half of Africa’s approved diagnostics for six priority epidemic diseases are not accessible to primary health care facilities, a new report finds
April 2026
29 AprDaily Guide
… rican Union Member States, with the coordination of the African Union Commission, are advancing domestic health financing, strengthening local manufacturing of vaccines and health products, and enhancing regulatory systems through institutions such as the African Medicines Agency …
For Every Generation, Vaccines Work — Securing Africa’s Health Future
27 AprJoy Online
… The African Medicines Agency, the African Continental Free Trade Area, and Africa’s growing pharmaceutical capacity already provide a foundation. …
A new chapter for Africa’s malaria response through accountability and sovereignty
27 AprJoy Online
… rican Union Member States, with the coordination of the African Union Commission, are advancing domestic health financing, strengthening local manufacturing of vaccines and health products, and enhancing regulatory systems through institutions such as the African Medicines Agency …
For every generation, vaccines work — Securing Africa’s health future

World & Region

Africa launches West Africa research programme for outbreak response

The News

A new regional initiative connects research institutions across West Africa to strengthen preparedness for public health emergencies and enable faster, more coordinated responses to disease outbreaks such as Ebola, Mpox, Lassa fever and COVID-19. The Africa Research Preparedness Programme for West Africa uses a hub-and-spoke model with the goal of activating clinical research responses within 10 to 15 days of an outbreak.

24 October 2026 · Joy Online →

Saturday 24 October

Africa launches West Africa research programme for outbreak response
A new regional initiative connects research institutions across West Africa to strengthen preparedness for public health emergencies and enable faster, more coordinated responses to disease outbreaks such as Ebola, Mpox, Lassa fever and COVID-19. The Africa Research Preparedness Programme for West Africa uses a hub-and-spoke model with the goal of activating clinical research responses within 10 to 15 days of an outbreak.
24 October 2026 · Joy Online →

Sunday 4 October

Mahama urges African leaders to prioritise health sovereignty
President Mahama has called on African leaders to treat health as an investable, high-growth economic sector rather than a charitable cost, positioning health sovereignty and economic security of Africa's 1.4 billion people as a continental priority.
4 October 2026 · Joy Online →

Saturday 3 October

Mahama urges African leaders to prioritize health sovereignty
At the Alamein Africa Forum in Egypt, President Mahama called on African leaders to make health sovereignty a priority for the continent's 1.4 billion people, arguing that health should be treated as an investable, high-growth economic sector rather than a charitable cost. He cited evidence that investment in basic maternal and newborn care yields significant economic returns for every dollar invested.
3 October 2026 · Joy Online →
Mahama urges removal of barriers to strengthen African pharmaceutical sector
President John Dramani Mahama has called for the removal of regulatory and financial barriers hindering integrated health and pharmaceutical value chains across Africa, arguing that the continent must coordinate markets, regulations, and industrial capacities to achieve health transformation. He cited the African Continental Free Trade Area as a framework for creating larger markets for African pharmaceutical manufacturers and noted that Ghana is deploying task forces to monitor capital flows and identify non-tariff barriers affecting regional value chains.
3 October 2026 · Joy Online →
Mahama launches HINGE platform to ease African health investment
President Mahama announced the Health Investment and National Gateway Enabler (HINGE), a digital platform developed with the African Medicines Agency, Institut Pasteur and AfroChampions to reduce regulatory and financial barriers for investors and innovators in Africa's health sector. The platform streamlines regulation, clinical validation and commercialisation into a unified process, and Ghana is establishing task forces and a Reform Interlock Observatory to track capital flows and monitor policy commitments.
3 October 2026 · Joy Online →

Monday 28 September

Ghana must not surrender FDA authority for foreign aid
Parliament's Select Committee on Health chairman Dr Mark Kurt Nawaane says Ghana should not bypass its regulatory processes for medicines in exchange for international financial assistance, emphasizing that the FDA must retain final responsibility for examining medical products entering the country.
28 September 2026 · Joy Online →

Thursday 10 September

African healthcare manufacturers gather in Addis for 2026 conference
The third African Healthcare Manufacturing Trade Exhibition and Conference (AHMTEC 2026) will be held from 26 to 28 October in Addis Ababa, bringing together manufacturers, suppliers, investors, and policymakers. The event, themed "Industrialise to Commercialise," will shift focus from capacity building to enabling African pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturing to compete in regional and global markets.
10 September 2026 · Joy Online →

Wednesday 29 July

Pan-African Parliament adopts traditional medicine legal framework resolutions
The Pan-African Parliament has adopted resolutions championed by Frank Annoh-Dompreh calling for African governments to establish legal and regulatory frameworks for traditional medicine integration into national healthcare systems, including development of a continental 'Model Law on Traditional Medicine and the Protection of Local Knowledge' to guide research, licensing, quality assurance and ethical use of indigenous medicines.
29 July 2026 · The Chronicle →

Tuesday 28 July

Pan-African Parliament urges governments to fund health commitment
The Pan-African Parliament adopted a resolution challenging African governments to honour the Abuja Declaration of 2001, which requires allocating at least 15% of annual national budgets to health. The Parliament warned that weak funding continues to expose the continent to public health threats and called on member states to establish contingency funds and strengthen legal frameworks for health emergency response.
28 July 2026 · Joy Online →
Africa urges stronger national laws for pandemic preparedness
The Pan-African Parliament has called on African Union member states to adopt continental health frameworks into national law to strengthen pandemic preparedness and response, citing gaps in health systems and legal structures exposed by HIV, Ebola, COVID-19, mpox, Marburg and cholera outbreaks.
28 July 2026 · Joy Online →

Thursday 23 July

AU summit in Accra focuses on ending AIDS and TB by 2030
Heads of State and Government, health ministers, and development partners met in Accra to advance Africa's health agenda, with a focus on ending AIDS and tuberculosis by 2030, reducing maternal mortality, and boosting local pharmaceutical manufacturing. Delegates are expected to adopt a fully-costed continental roadmap and declarations on monitoring non-communicable and neglected tropical diseases.
23 July 2026 · The Ghanaian Times →

Wednesday 22 July

Mahama urges Africa to develop local medicine manufacturing
President Mahama told African leaders at an AU health summit in Accra that the continent imports around 70% of its medicines, more than 90% of its medical devices, and over 99% of its vaccines, and called for accelerated domestic production to reduce vulnerability during health crises and create jobs for youth.
22 July 2026 · Joy Online →
WHO chief urges Africa to strengthen health systems, reduce external dependence
At the African Union's first Extraordinary Summit on health in Accra, WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus warned that declining international funding threatens Africa's progress against HIV, tuberculosis, malaria, and other diseases, urging African leaders to prioritise health sovereignty and increase domestic investment in healthcare systems.
22 July 2026 · Joy Online →
Half of Africa's approved diagnostics lack access to primary health facilities
A PATH and Impact Global Health report finds that half of approved diagnostics for six priority epidemic diseases (mpox, dengue, cholera, bacterial meningitis, malaria, and Ebola) require laboratory infrastructure most African primary health facilities lack, with the figure rising to 88% for Ebola. Since 2015, funding for developing tests for these diseases has fallen by more than half.
22 July 2026 · The Chronicle →

Wednesday 29 April

Africa's vaccination gap widens despite proven disease protection
Vaccines have saved millions of lives and protected generations across Africa, yet in 2024, 6.7 million children received no doses of DTP vaccine—91,000 more than in 2023. The article argues that persistent gaps in access, equity, financing, and trust must be urgently addressed to ensure vaccines reach everyone.
29 April 2026 · Daily Guide →

Monday 27 April

Africa's malaria response stalls despite early progress
African Union, regional leaders, and partners acknowledge that while Africa prevented over 1.64 billion malaria cases and saved 12.4 million lives since 2000, the trend has reversed: in 2024 alone, the continent recorded 270.8 million cases and nearly 600,000 deaths, with 75 percent of deaths among children under five, putting Africa off track to meet 2030 elimination targets.
27 April 2026 · Joy Online →
Vaccines transform African health; 6.7 million children unvaccinated
Across Africa, vaccines have protected generations and prevented diseases like cervical cancer and malaria, yet 6.7 million children in Africa in 2024 were "zero-dose" and did not receive even a single dose of the DTP vaccine, reflecting persistent gaps in access, equity, financing, and trust.
27 April 2026 · Joy Online →