Inaugural Working Visit of Partnership for Safe Medicines to Ghana

Like all the major crises facing the world today, counterfeiting cannot be tackled save in the context of Global Partnerships. Enhanced law enforcement, competent regulation, and technical interventions in one territory will simply lead to the migration of the counterfeiting menace to surrounding territories only for the harmful effects to be re-imported back in due course. This is particularly true for the West African sub-region, mPedigree's current sphere of operation. Porous borders, weak interagency cooperation (making an exception for the fantastic West African Drugs Regulatory Agencies Network (WADRAN) framework) and the underdeveloped regional security infrastructure are the chief hallmarks of the transfrontier situation in the sub-region.


Besides, most credible estimates suggest that the bulk of the counterfeit problem is imported into the region from overseas. The need for West African campaigners to adopt a global perspective is therefore underlined by simple prudence and basic logic. MPedigree and its partners, the business Coalition Against Counterfeit and Illicit Trade (CACIT), the Ghana Food and Drugs Board and Ministry of Health of Ghana, profoundly agree on this point, and were therefore pleased to jointly facilitate the inaugural visit of the Partnership for Safe Medicines to Ghana. The hope is that this burgeoning intercontinental partnership will blossom into tangible results in the titanic struggle against dangerous medicines and those who profit from the misery they inflict across Africa and beyond.

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Mr. Scott LaGanga from the Partnership for Safe Medicines provided an insightful presentation (left). Other dignitaries at the high table included Reverend Jonathan Martey, Deputy Chief Executive of the Ghana Food and Drugs Board, and Honourable Dr. Gladys Ashitey, Deputy Minister of Health (right)
The invited public asked key questions while the media eagerly documented events to augment its drive to put the issue of safe medicines on the national agenda.

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