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'Nigeria needs to increase local manufacturing of drugs to avoid drug shortage that reflects drug insecurity.' Nafdac MojisolaAdeyeye Nigeria CoronaVirus

, she was the founding Chair of Biopharmaceutical Sciences and a Professor of Pharmaceutics, Manufacturing Science and Drug Product Evaluation at the College of Pharmacy, Roosevelt University in Schaumburg, Illinois, United States , where she spent seven years. She was also a Professor of Pharmaceutics and Manufacturing for 21 years at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, US.

In related news, Inovio announced last week that it will work with Beijing Advaccine Biotechnology to put the Pennsylvania company’s DNA-based, CEPI-funded vaccine candidate through Phase 1 in China, while Reuters reported Thursday that Sanofi would share its “expertise and data” with CEPI and announce “a new coronavirus initiative within the next two weeks.”

On drugs, a World Health Organisation working group named Gilead’s investigational antiviral remdesivir as “the most promising candidate” for coronavirus drug R&D in a draft blueprint circulated last week. A coronavirus patient in Washington State also markedly improved after intravenous treatment with remdesivir on a compassionate-use basis,

Meanwhile, Regeneron announced on Tuesday that it is expanding its existing agreement with the U.S. Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority by adding 2019-nCoV to the list of pathogens the company is using government funding to target, although the New York-based biotech did not say whether BARDA is offering any additional money.

In a similar move, Public Health England announced yesterday that it would distribute its own diagnostic—currently available only in one lab in London—to 12 facilities across the United Kingdom, beginning next week. The President, Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria , Mazi Sam Ohuabunwa, also warned of drug scarcity due to increase in Value Added Tax , border closure and Economic Community of West African States protocol etc. Do you agree with this concern? What can or is NAFDAC doing about this?

The New Partnership for Africa’s Development is an economic development program of the African Union. NEPAD was adopted at the 37th session of the Assembly of Heads of State and Government in July 2001 in Lusaka, Zambia.The goal is to build and strengthen the capacity of African countries in medicines quality control and regional post marketing surveillance, which in turn, will contribute significantly to reducing sub-standard and falsified medical products in circulation in the African markets.

 

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