Published May 25, 2023 / Public health
Dialogue between the Brazzaville Foundation and Nigeria's pharmaceutical regulatory agency
Geneva, 25 May 2023 - Professor Moji Christianah Adeyeye, Director General of Nigeria's National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) and Mr. Richard Amalvy, Chief Executive of the Brazzaville Foundation met in Geneva. This meeting followed a seminar organised in Abuja at the end of January 2023, organized by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Professor Moji Christianah Adeyeye, Director General of Nigeria's National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) and Mr. Richard Amalvy, Chief Executive of the Brazzaville Foundation, during the World Health Assembly in Geneva, © Brazzaville Foundation.
Discussions focused on Nigeria's declared willingness to join the Lomé Initiative against medicines that kill, and to contribute to the fight against substandard and falsified medical products within the sub-region.
Sub-Saharan Africa is the region most affected by trafficking substandard or falsified medical products. According to the WHO, this scourge causes over 100,000 deaths a year on the continent. In September 2016, some 126 million fake medicines were seized byOrganisation world customs in sixteen African ports, over a third of which were destined for Nigeria, often identified as an entry point for fake medicines into Africa.
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