HEALTH● LOW2h ago · Oct 15, 2026, 12:45 PM
Vaccines, antibiotics: Africa's push for pharma independence [Business Africa]
Africanews [en] · sub saharan africa
Africa imports 70-80% of the medicines it consumes, and up to 95% of the active pharmaceutical ingredients needed to make them. That dependency leaves the continent exposed to every global supply chain shock, from Covid-19 to the war in Ukraine to instability in the Gulf
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