Improving access to quality medicines in East Africa: An independent perspective on the East African Community Medicines Regulatory Harmonization initiative

Alexander R Giaquinto; Alberto Grignolo; Lawrence Liberti; John C W Lim; Tomas Salmonson; Fernand Sauer; Henrietta Ukwu

doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1003092

Improving access to quality medicines in East Africa: An independent perspective on the East African Community Medicines Regulatory Harmonization initiative

PLoS Med. 2020 Aug 12;17(8):e1003092. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1003092. eCollection 2020 Aug.

Authors

Alexander R Giaquinto¹, Alberto Grignolo², Lawrence Liberti³, John C W Lim⁴, Tomas Salmonson⁵, Fernand Sauer⁶, Henrietta Ukwu⁷

Affiliations

¹ ARG Consulting, LLC, United States of America.
² Parexel, Billerica, Massachusetts, United States of America.
³ Centre for Innovation in Regulatory Science, London, United Kingdom.
⁴ Centre of Regulatory Excellence, Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore.
⁵ Consilium Salmonson & Hemmings, Uppsala, Sweden.
⁶ Académie Nationale de Pharmacie, Paris, France.
⁷ Otsuka Pharmaceutical Companies, Princeton, New Jersey, United States of America.

Abstract

Alexander Giaquinto and co-authors discuss the East African Community's Medicines Regulatory Harmonization initiative.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Review

MeSH terms

Africa, Eastern / epidemiology
Community Medicine / legislation & jurisprudence
Community Medicine / standards*
Drug and Narcotic Control* / legislation & jurisprudence
Health Services Accessibility / legislation & jurisprudence
Health Services Accessibility / standards*
Humans
Practice Guidelines as Topic / standards*
Quality of Health Care / legislation & jurisprudence
Quality of Health Care / standards*

Grants and funding

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation provided funding to support the preparation of this manuscript, but no author received compensation from the Foundation for their role in writing it.