Revisiting the issue of access to medicines in Africa: Challenges and recommendations

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Authors

Yusuff Adebayo Adebisi · University of Ibadan

Ifechukwu Benedict Nwogu · Urban Institute

Aishat Jumoke Alaran · World Health Organization - Nigeria

Abubakar Olaitan Badmos · National Primary Health Care Development Agency

Adeboye Olakunle Bamgboye · Obafemi Awolowo University

Basirat Oluwadamilola Rufai · University of Ibadan

Osaretin Christabel Okonji

Abstract

This review reifies that access to medicines in Africa faces numerous challenges and it emphasizes the urgent need to address these issues as the continent geared towards strengthening its health systems for universal health coverage.

Topics & Keywords

Pharmaceutical Economics and Policy Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life Pharmaceutical Quality and Counterfeiting

UN Sustainable Development Goals

Partnerships for the goals

Publication Details

Published in: Public Health Challenges

Volume 1, Issue 2, pp. e9-e9

DOI: 10.1002/puh2.9

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