TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mackintosh,Maureen
AU  - Banda,Geoffrey
AU  - Tibandebage,Paula
AU  - Wamae,Watu
ED  - SpringerLink (Online service)
TI  - Making Medicines in Africa: The Political Economy of Industrializing for Local Health 
T2  - International Political Economy Series
SN  - 9781137546470
AV  - HD87-87.55 
U1  - 338.9 23
PY  - 2016///
CY  - London
PB  - Palgrave Macmillan UK, Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
KW  - Ethnology
KW  - Africa
KW  - Political economy
KW  - International relations
KW  - Pharmacology
KW  - International economics
KW  - Economic policy
KW  - Economics
KW  - Economic Policy
KW  - International Relations
KW  - Pharmacology/Toxicology
KW  - Political Economy
KW  - African Culture
KW  - International Economics
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - local
N1  - Open Access
N2  - This book is open access under a CC-BY license. This book is about medicines production in sub-Saharan Africa, an enquiry driven by the vast unmet health needs of the sub-continent. It is a collective endeavour by a group of editors and authors with a strong African and more broadly Southern presence to find ways forward that link technological development, investment and industrial growth in pharmaceuticals to improve access to essential good quality medicines, as part of moving towards universal access to competent health care. We aim to shift the emphasis in international debate to give much more attention to the scope for sustained Africa-based and African-led initiatives to tackle this huge challenge. Without the technological, industrial, intellectual, organisational and research-related capabilities associated with competent pharmaceutical production, and without policies that pull the industrial sectors towards serving local health needs, the African sub-continent cannot generate the resources to tackle the needs and demands of its population
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ER  -