Algeria is defending its candidacy to host the headquarters of the African Medicines Agency (AMA). As part of the promotion of this candidacy, the Minister of Pharmaceutical Industry, Lotfi Benbahmed, met Monday the ambassadors of African countries accredited in Algeria.
Algeria wants to make available to the African Medicines Agency all Algerian expertise, through its institutional, scientific and regulatory resources in order to “support” it and “accompany it in the accomplishment of its missions,” according to a statement from the Benbahmed department.
In front of the ambassadors and representatives of 27 African countries accredited in Algeria, the executives of the Ministry of Pharmaceutical Industry explained,” through detailed presentations, the content and the assets of Algeria’s candidacy to host the headquarters of the AMA”, according to the same source.
“Strengthened by its institutions and its new regulatory framework with some sixty texts drawn up in less than two years, tracing the outlines of a coherent pharmaceutical policy on the regulatory and economic levels and thanks to the unprecedented development of its pharmaceutical industrial fabric, Algeria’s candidacy offers, in addition to infrastructure and technical and human resources, a favorable environment in terms of expertise and training in the field of the pharmaceutical industry”, supports the Ministry of Pharmaceutical Industry.
“Best Application”
These presentations, “illustrate the size and relevance of the Algerian offer”, presented as “the best candidacy” to house the WADA headquarters, according to the same source. They were delivered in the form of “digital media and documentation that ambassadors and representatives of African countries accredited and resident in Algeria will have to transmit to the authorities of their respective countries allowing them to better appreciate the importance of Algeria’s offer. and to support the candidacy of our country during the 41st ordinary session of the Executive Council of the African Union which will decide on the headquarters of the African Medicines Agency AMA on July 14 and 15 in Lusaka”.
Algeria is in competition with Rwanda to host the headquarters of the African Medicines Agency. On June 3, the Ministry of Pharmaceutical Industry indicated that the conclusions of the report of the work of the first conference of the States have signed the treaty of creation of the AMA held from June 1 to 3 in Addis Ababa, have made “that Algeria’s candidacy arrives with that of Rwanda among the first two in the ranking”. Algeria overtook Tunisia, Morocco, Zimbabwe, Uganda, Tanzania, and Egypt in the ranking.
