Africa: Mozambican Wins Prestigious Vaccine Innovation Award
Sixty-four-year-old Margarida Matsinhe has won the 2013 Gates Vaccine Innovation Award for her “instrumental†work in overhauling the vaccine system in her native Mozambique.
South Africa pharma market “to grow 5.8%/year to 2020″
South Africa’s pharmaceutical market is expected to increase at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 5.8% from 2011 to 2020, when its value will have risen from US$2.5 billion to $4.2 billion, according to new forecasts.
This expected fast growth will be driven by the government’s healthcare reforms, which include improving access to healthcare services by expanding National Health Insurance (NIH) coverage to the entire South African population, and overhauling the nation’s drug regulatory processes to be faster and more transparent.
Three Dodoma districts get improved hygiene
The Ministry of Health and Social Welfare Assistant Director in the department of Environmental Health, Hygiene and Sanitation, Dr Elias Chinamo, said in Dar es Salaam that the three districts were previously in poor sanitation due to unsafe water supply.
The Usafi wa Mazingira Tanzania – Sanitation and Hygiene in Tanzania (UMATA) programme is implementing the project in that area.
Africa is healthy market for drug firms
Pharmaceutical markets in sub-Saharan Africa earned revenues of $2.2 billion (R19bn) in 2011 and were estimated to reach $5bn in 2018 as a result of the growing middle class, increasing incidence of non-communicable diseases and the continued burden of infectious diseases.
