Making Medicines in Africa : The Political Economy of Industrializing for Local Health.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (353 pages)
- International Political Economy Series .
- International Political Economy Series .
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Preface -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: African Industrial Development, Values and Health Care -- Part I The Pharmaceutical Industry in Africa -- 1 Making Medicines in Africa: An Historical Political Economy Overview -- 2 Pharmaceuticals in Kenya: The Evolution of Technological Capabilities -- 3 Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Decline in Tanzania: How Possible Is a Turnaround to Growth? -- 4 Bringing Industrial and Health Policies Closer: Reviving Pharmaceutical Production in Ethiopia -- 5 South-South Collaboration in Pharmaceuticals: Manufacturing Anti-retroviral Medicines in Mozambique -- 6 Can Foreign Firms Promote Local Production of Pharmaceuticals in Africa? -- 7 Raising the Technological Level: The Scope for API, Excipients, and Biologicals Manufacture in Africa -- Part II Industrialization for Health -- 8 Health Systems as Industrial Policy: Building Collaborative Capabilities in the Tanzanian and Kenyan Health Sectors and Their Local Suppliers -- 9 The Dissemination of Local Health Innovations: Political Economy Issues in Brazil -- 10 Healthy Industries and Unhealthy Populations: Lessons from Indian Problem-Solving -- Part III Industrial Policies and Health Needs -- 11 Policies to Control Prices of Medicines: Does the South African Experience Have Lessons for Other African Countries? -- 12 Pharmaceutical Standards in Africa: The Road to Improvement and Their Role in Technological Capability Upgrading -- 13 Innovative Procurement for Health and Industrial Development -- 14 Industry Associations and the Changing Politics of Making Medicines in South Africa -- 15 Finance and Incentives to Support the Development of National Pharmaceutical Industries -- Bibliography -- Index.