Pharmaceutical Capacities and Access to HealthCare in Kenya

Date de début:

12 Février 2016 - 14:30

Type d'événement:

Séminaire

Publié ici :

01 Février 2016

Mis à jour le :

29 Juillet 2017

Mots-clefs:

santé
accès aux soins
industries pharmaceutiques
Kenya

Zone géographique:

Afrique

In the contemporary Bio-medical world, access to Healthcare is increasingly matching up the access to medicines. What about pharmaceutical capacities in the Global South? Shifting geographies of production have seen emerging Pharmaceutical powers in India, China, Brazil or South Africa. Now countries such as Kenya are developing their own pharmaceutical sector in order to reduce the rates of external reliance and provide better Healthcare to their citizens. What are the challenges of such an industry, in financial, technical, knowledge terms? And above all, on what conditions can it improve the quality of healthcare of the Kenyan people?

1) Joan Kariuki Kungu (African Centre for Technology Studies) – ‘Health Sector Supply Chains in Kenya Prospects for improving performance’

The presentation will summarize:

– The extent of opportunities to combine better health care with industrial development.
– Strengths and weaknesses of domestic supply chain linkages, and the external pressures that tend to disaggregate them.
– The core challenge faced by locally based firms in upgrading to achieve and sustain international competitiveness.
– Existing policies that support or undermine health-industrial synergies;

Project findings used a conceptual framework of industrial and institutional capacities. Industrial suppliers of essential medicines and medical supplies in both countries face adverse rising international competitive pressures, resulting from broader trade liberalization and specific policies encouraged by donors to remove tariffs and taxes from imported health sector supplies; externally focused international procurement (both donor-funded and locally purchased);competitive and regulatory pressures for higher quality standards; and changes in first line treatments for major illnesses that require technological upgrading and associated investment.

Joan Kariuki Kung’u is a Research Fellow at African Centre for Technology studies. She has over 8 years experience in multi-disciplinary research on Environment, Natural Resources and Sustainable Development. She is working in the Bio-economy program at ACTS specifically on the Industrial Productivity and Health Sector Performance project. The project aims to identify opportunities for improved local industrial supply of medical products to strengthen Kenyan and Tanzanian institutional capacities.

2) Mathieu Quet (IRD) – “Are there good solutions to bad medicines?

Assemblages of technology, security and politics in the Kenyan pharma market”

This communication will deal with the public issue of SSFFC (substandard, spurious, fake, falsified, counterfeit) medicines in Kenya and how it has been framed for the last decade. How does it affect the activity of pharmaceutical authorities? Kenyan manufacturers and distributors? And most importantly consumers themselves? Drawing from science and technology studies, the talk will pay particular attention to the different ways in which such concepts as pharmaceutical security, safety and quality are bringing together health, technological and political issues. There is nothing “neutral” in the way pharmaceutical flows are being controlled and the politics of pharmaceutical security need to be addressed in order to improve access to medicines.

Mathieu Quet is a research fellow at Institute of Research for Development (Paris, France). He is currently hosted at the Centre for Studies in Science Policy, J. Nehru University, New Delhi. He is working on pharmaceutical flows between India and Kenya, looking at issues of quality, control and access to medicines.

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1) Joan Kariuki Kungu (African Centre for Technology Studies) – ‘Health Sector Supply Chains in Kenya Prospects for improving performance’

2) Mathieu Quet (IRD) – “Are there good solutions to bad medicines?

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1) Joan Kariuki Kungu (African Centre for Technology Studies) – ‘Health Sector Supply Chains in Kenya Prospects for improving performance’

2) Mathieu Quet (IRD) – “Are there good solutions to bad medicines?

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