EAC TO HOST AFRICAN MEDICINES REGULATORY HARMONIZATION DONOR ROUNDTABLE CONFERENCE IN ARUSHA

 The East African Community Headquarters will on Friday 17th October 2014, host the EAC-Africa Medicines Regulatory Harmonization Round Table Donors Conference at its headquarters Arusha, Tanzania. 

The Round Table Donors Conference will be co-chaired by Hon. James W. Macharia, Cabinet Secretary for Health of the Republic of Kenya and Chairperson of the EAC Sectoral Council of Minister of Health as well as Mr. Dan Hartman, Director of integrated Development (Global Health) from Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, USA. 

The Round Table Conference aims at improving access to quality and safe drugs for African citizens and exploring ways of financing the African Medicines Regulatory Harmonization (AMRH) Initiative at a time many countries are struggling to streamline medicines registration processes and systems.

In addition, the Round Table Conference will give an overview of the AMRH, showcase exciting progress made to date in the EAC as well as future plans and expansion plans into other Regional Economic Communities.

The conference will be attended by among others donors from developed and emerging markets, Ministers of Health and Finance from Partner States, Heads of National Regulatory Authorities(NRAs),representatives from the East African Legislative Assembly(EALA) and Pan African Parliament, high level political leaders from the EAC and African Union(AU)as well as representative from Regional Economic Communities(RECs),