Africa ahead.
Listen. Understand. Act.
Logo - Brazzaville Foundation
Home > News > Lomé Initiative health ministers agree on common roadmap

Published August 25, 2022 / Public health

Lomé Initiative health ministers agree on common roadmap

20220829-RC72-MinistresIDL3

Meeting for a working dinner on Thursday August 25, at the invitation of Togo's Minister of Health, Pr Moustafa Mijiyawa, and Brazzaville Foundation's Chief Executive , Richard Amalvy, the Ministers of Health from signatory and candidate countries of the Lomé Initiative discussed common challenges in the fight against trafficking falsified and substandard medicines.

Caption (from left to right): Family photo (from left to right): Dr. Benido Impouma, Director Communicable and Non-Communicable Diseases Organic Group, WHO Regional Office in Africa; Dr. Malick Ndiaye, Technical Advisor No. 1 to the Minister of Health and Social Action of Senegal; Pr. Moustafa Mijiyawa, Minister of Health, Public Hygiene and Universal Access to Care of Togo; Dr. Fatoumata Binta T. Diallo, WHO Resident Representative in Togo; Dr. Jane Ruth Aceng Ocero, Minister of Health of Uganda; Mr. Richard Amalvy, Chief Executive of Brazzaville Foundation ; General Gilbert Mokoki, Minister of Health and Population of the Republic of Congo; Dr. Benjamin Bola, Senior Advisor to the President of the DRC on Health and Welfare, © Brazzaville Foundation.

The joint roadmap will be strengthened by a pooling effort to share the knowledge acquired on the response of states in terms of legislation and implementation of regulatory authorities at national level.

 

Following President Gnassingbé's call to extend the Lomé Initiative to new African states, the ministers unanimously asked Brazzaville Foundation to strengthen its partnership with the African Commission and its departments, as well as with the operators of the future African Medicines Agency.

 

The signatory countries are the Republic of Togo, political coordinator, the Republic of Congo, Ghana, Niger, Senegal and Uganda. Candidate countries are the Gambia, Guinea Bissau and the Democratic Republic of Congo.