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29 Oct
6th Scomra 29 October Country: Egypt
Add to Calendar 2023-10-29 02:00:00 2024-03-29 07:56:11 6th Scomra Egypt dijithadt@assyst.in Africa/Johannesburg public
09 Oct
Africa Kaizen Annual Conference 2023 09 - 10 October Country: Ethiopia
Add to Calendar 2023-10-09 02:00:00 2023-10-10 02:00:00 Africa Kaizen Annual Conference 2023 Ethiopia dijithadt@assyst.in Africa/Johannesburg public
18 Sep
Advancing Pandemic Prevention, Preparedness and… 18 September Country: United States of America
Add to Calendar 2023-09-18 02:00:00 2024-03-29 07:56:11 Advancing Pandemic Prevention, Preparedness and Response (PPPR) focusing on local manufacture of health products and technologies in Africa Theme: Leveraging the role of public-private partnerships. Africa’s pursuit of self-reliance in healthcare is crucial. Our event during UNGA aims to foster collaboration, mobilise financing, and strengthen PPPR coordination on the continent.  The purpose of the convening will be to: Foster conversation and recommendation on Africa’s efforts towards strengthening the continental Pandemic Prevention, Preparedness and Response (PPPR) architecture. Brief African member states and partners on the ongoing developments pertaining to global coordination for equitable distribution of medical countermeasures in future pandemics Leverage the interest by global, continental, and regional procurers to increase demand financing towards improving investment in local production. Mobilize public and private collaboration towards financing and investing in Africa's medical products value chain. Evoke participation of different stakeholder groups, i.e., private sector, donors, and health organizations, for localizing manufacturing and innovation of all health products. Highlight the collaboration between AU organs and other stakeholders to strengthen PPPR coordination and pharmaceutical manufacturing on the continent. United States of America dijithadt@assyst.in Africa/Johannesburg public
18 Sep
African Continental Dialogue in Preparation for… 18 September Country: United States of America
Add to Calendar 2023-09-18 02:00:00 2023-09-18 02:00:00 African Continental Dialogue in Preparation for the United Nations High-Level Meeting on Tuberculosis Theme: Advancing science, finance and innovation to urgently end the global tuberculosis epidemic by ensuring equitable access to prevention, testing, treatment and care.  The dialogue presents an opportunity for African Leaders, partners, funders and civil society to assess, galvanise efforts towards ending TB by 2030. The event will share success stories and lessons learnt in TB prevention and control in Africa, with a focus on regional collaboration, partnership and resource mobilisation. United States of America dijithadt@assyst.in Africa/Johannesburg public
15 Sep
Add to Calendar 2023-09-15 02:00:00 2023-09-15 02:00:00 PIDA First 10-Year Implementation Report Launch "A Decade of Transforming Africa's Infrastructure" Under the leadership of its Chief Executive Office, H.E. Mrs Nardos Bekele-Thomas, the African Union Development Agency-NEPAD,  partners, and stakeholders of the  Programme for Infrastructure Development in Africa (PIDA) are set to launch the first 10-year PIDA Progress Report. This report will reflect PIDA's achievements over the past decade and outline critical considerations for the future. Additionally, it aims to share and establish a strategy for attracting more investment towards advancing regional infrastructure development, with particular focus on PIDA financing for Africa’s Integration.  Since the programme’s inception in 2012, PIDA's Priority Action Plans (PAPs) have played a crucial role in expediting regional priority projects and propelling Africa towards a more connected and prosperous future. During the PIDA-PAP 1 period from 2012 to 2020, significant progress was made in developing thousands of kilometres of roads and railway lines, establishing One-Stop Border Posts (OSBPs), and making notable advancements in energy generation and transmission. These achievements have laid a solid foundation for continued progress. dijithadt@assyst.in Africa/Johannesburg public
03 Aug
Add to Calendar 2023-08-03 02:00:00 2023-08-03 02:00:00 Virtual Orientation on Guidance for Regulation Maternal, Newborn and Child Health (MNCH) Medical Devices For regulators across Africa Maintaining the quality and performance of medical devices circulating in the market is vital. Achieving the required quality, safety, and performance of the medical devices involves assessment of a medical device’s technical file before granting authorization for sale or distribution.   The AMDF has already published a set of Guidelines on different regulatory functions related to medical devices.  To complement that set and recognizing the sensitivity and vulnerability of mothers, newborns and children and the unique requirements of medical devices for maternal, newborn, and child health (MNCH), AMDF has just launched a guidance document of considerations for regulation of MNCH medical devices. Join this virtual orientation session for medical device assessors from the African continent on the technical resources available to guide regulation of medical devices and on the specific considerations for regulation of MNCH medical devices. Zoom link: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_YUdigRksThGDhN1i6tdYvA dijithadt@assyst.in Africa/Johannesburg public
18 May
Launch of Grand Challenges Rwanda 18 - 19 May Country: Rwanda
Add to Calendar 2023-05-18 02:00:00 2023-05-19 02:00:00 Launch of Grand Challenges Rwanda On the 18th – 19th May 2023 at the Kigali Convention Centre, Rwanda will have the official launch of its National Grand Challenges. This process will be facilitated by the Rwanda National Council for Science and Technology (NCST). The National Grand Challenges forms a part of the initiatives under the Office of Science, Technology, and Innovation (OSTI) with the aims to establish national financing mechanisms across the AU Member States to accelerate investments in R&D. Additionally, the National Grand Challenges programme promotes Africa-led scientific innovations to ensure transition to scale by awarding seed and scale-up grants to Africa's most impressive solutions. Grand Challenges is a family of initiatives fostering innovation to solve key global health and development problems. Each initiative is an experiment in the use of challenges to focus innovation on making an impact. Individual challenges address some of the same problems, but from differing perspectives.  (See the Grand Challenges fact sheet). Rwanda dijithadt@assyst.in Africa/Johannesburg public
08 Apr
3rd AMRH Week Summary Report 08 April Country: Ghana
Add to Calendar 2023-04-08 02:00:00 2023-04-08 02:00:00 3rd AMRH Week Summary Report AMRH WEEK BACKGROUND  The African Medicines Regulatory Harmonization (AMRH) Initiative has over the last 13 years, been working to address challenges in the regulation of medical products in Africa by playing  a critical role in ensuring increased access to good quality, safe and efficacious medical products. This has been addressed in mainly two ways; regulatory systems strengthening and regulatory harmonisation.  From the 5th to the 9th of December experts and stakeholders gathered the 3rd AMRH Week to unpack the ways to ensure that as the continent moves towards the African Medicines Agency (AMA), no one is left behind, partners are well coordinated, and technical capabilities are strengthened. Africa has an ambitious goal, of being able to produce its own vaccines by 2030, and the conversations at the 3rd AMRH week also centred on how to fast track this goal under the guidance of the AMRH and the Partnership for African Vaccine Manufacturing (PAVM) structures.  The AMRH Week is an event convened every two years by the AMRH Joint Secretariat, which comprises the African Union Development Agency-NEPAD (AUDA-NEPAD) and the World Health Organisation (WHO) with support from the African Union Commission (AUC). The ‘week’ brings together high-level African leaders and policy makers, members of AMRH Steering Committee (AMRH SC), Regional Economic Communities (RECs) the AMRH Technical Committees (AMRH TCs), the AMRH Partnership Platform (AMRH PP) as well other partners and stakeholders to showcase and celebrate the successes of AMRH as well as to reflect on progress, challenges and identify opportunities for continued improvement.  The 3rd AMRH Week took place more than two years into the pandemic, which persists and continues to pose a threat to the health and economic status of African countries. Issues such as inequitable access to vaccines are still rife as less than 25 percent of Africans are vaccinated against COVID-19. However, the pandemic has also presented opportunities for Africa. Specifically, the African Union and the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) have called for the development of a framework to enable Africa to manufacture 60 percent of the vaccines it needs locally by 2040. Achieving this milestone will ensure self-reliance in the face of public health emergencies and beyond. With the launch of AMA on 5th of November 2021, the 3rd AMRH Week was even more consequential.  The AMRH Initiative is coordinating the support of multiple partners to accelerate the operationalisation of AMA. The 3rd AMRH Week presented a critical opportunity to share experiences, good practices, and innovative responses to the pandemic by African NRAs. Additionally, it presented an avenue to launch two significant reports on Africa’s pharmaceutical development and progress. Specifically, the report on the analysis of the current state of development of the local pharmaceutical manufacturing and regulatory capabilities in Africa Union (AU) recognized Regional Economic Communities (RECs).  Ghana dijithadt@assyst.in Africa/Johannesburg public