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Published December 04, 2020 / Public health

MEDICRIME Convention: towards accession of Lomé Initiative signatory countries

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On 2 December, Togo's Minister of Health, Professor M. Mijiyawa, and the Brazzaville Foundation's Chief Executive , Richard Amalvy, took part in the 3rd plenary meeting of the Committee of the Parties to the Council of Europe's MEDICRIME Convention.

Caption: 3rd plenary meeting of the Committee of the Parties to the MEDICRIME Convention of the Council of Europe in the presence of the Chairman of the Committee, Mr Sergei Glagolev, the Executive Secretary, Mr Oscar-Alarcón Jiménez, the Minister of Health of the Republic of Togo, Professor M. Mijiyawa, and the Chief Executive of the Brazzaville Foundation, Richard Amalvy..

Welcomed by the Committee Chairman, Mr Sergei Glagolev, and the Executive Secretary, Mr Oscar-Alarcón Jiménez, the participants discussed the latest developments and follow-up to the Lomé Initiative, and presented the systemic inter-ministerial approach suggested for combating falsified and substandard medicines in each of the signatory countries.

 

One of the objectives of theLomé Initiativeinitiative, spearheaded by Brazzaville Foundation, is to secure the signature and ratification of international agreements such as the MEDICRIME Convention, which criminalizes the trafficking of falsified medicines, in order to move towards a legislative framework conducive to access to quality medicines in the initiative's six signatory countries (Congo-Brazzaville, Ghana, Niger, Senegal, Togo and Uganda).