South-Africa based ACRO is aiming at building partnerships across its home continent, according to its MD who told Outsourcing-Pharma of its ambition to have more local people performing research.
UK CRO Quintiles Transnational has set up an office in Accra, Ghana in a move it claims allows it to recruit trial participants from sub-Saharan Africa’s estimated 760m residents.
Research into developing manufacturing methods to produce cheap antiretrovirals in Africa has been highlighted on World Aids Day by The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR).
Indian pharmaceutical company Lupin Ltd has expanded into Africa by acquiring a 60 per cent stake Pharma Dynamics, a generics company and contract manufacturer based in Cape Town, South Africa.
West African states are meeting to devise a plan for cleaning up their tarnished reputations with regards to the flow of counterfeit pharmaceuticals in the region.
Roche today announced a handful of new charitable technology
transfer agreements with manufacturers in Africa and Asia, allowing
local production of generic HIV drugs.
Australian contract manufacturing organisation (CMO) Eastland
Medical Systems has bagged a manufacturing and distribution
contract with UK's Proto-Pharma for its anti-malaria treatment.