A unifying force for African medicines
By 
Phillip Broadwith2025-12-11T10:05:00
The new African Medicines Agency is hugely important but faces significant challenges
A decade in the making, the African Medicines Agency (AMA) – a new regulatory agency intended to cover the entire continent – saw its official launch at the Scientific Conference on Medical Product Regulation in Africa in Mombasa, Kenya, on 11 November. The new agency aims to centralise and harmonise the ways medicines are developed, tested and distributed across Africa.