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The AU-EU Partnership and the COVID-19 Pandemic
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The 6th AU-EU Summit presented a joint vision for a renewed inter-regional partnership with a strong emphasis on public health. With the COVID-19 pandemic as its backdrop, a common health agenda was agreed which pledged support for Africa’s fully-fledged health sovereignty. Different packages contemplated technical assistance and funding for improving health governance, infrastructures, human resources, health information and regulation, whilst ensuring vaccine dose sharing. This article looks at EU’s inter-regional health diplomacy and its ambition to shape African institutions, and the African Medicines Agency in particular. It addresses strategic considerations, comparing EU and AU models, regulatory policies, and their implementation, while considering the broader implications for African health sovereignty.
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Funding Information: Regulatory Forum (AVAREF), created by WHO and supported by the European Funding Information: The African Medicines Regulatory Harmonisation Initiative (AMRH) casts access to affordable essential medicines as a fundamental human right. The AMRH which received financial support from the World Bank aimed to implement regional mechanisms to facilitate and accelerate procedures for the approval of medicines and medical products. AMA is expected to reduce the significant delays that Marketing Authorisations (MA) and Clinical Trials Authorisations (CTA) for vaccines and medicines in LMICS (Ndomondo-Sigonda et al., 2018). Partnerships of government, the private sector and civil society were negotiated as sub-regional level in preparation for the AMA launch. The African Medicines Agency Treaty Alliance (AMATA) launched in 2021 urged AMA to engage with non-state actors, including civil society and patients as partners in the agencies’ regulatory development (Wale et al., 2023). Publisher Copyright: © 2022 Centro de Estudos Internacionais do Iscte - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa
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6 AU-EU Summit African Medicines Agency COVID-19 pandemic health diplomacy public health General Arts and Humanities General Social Sciences SDG 17 - Partnerships for the Goals SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being