Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Plan for Africa

The Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Plan for Africa (PMPA) was developed in the framework of then NEPAD (now AUDA-NEPAD) and adopted in 2007. A business plan proposing a package of technical solutions to the challenges confronting the pharmaceutical industry was endorsed in 2012.

The PMPA is designed to catalyse local pharmaceutical production which in turn should contribute to improved public health outcomes through ensuring access, quality, availability, and affordability of the much needed essential products on the one hand and economic benefits through sustainability, competitiveness, and self-reliance of the pharmaceutical industry on the other.