1. SARPAM Southern African Regional Programme for Access to Medicines and Diagnostics Presentation to Botswana TRIPS and Access to Medicines workshop 26 March 2013

2. Programme Goal Reduce the Disease Burden in Southern Africa by Increasing Access to Quality, Affordable, Essential Medicines.

3. Programme Purpose & Objectives Strengthen capacity in SADC Region to improve availability, affordability and quality of essential medicines ( MDG 8, Target 17) Build capacity of SADC Secretariat and Member States (MS) to deliver responses to lack of medicines in region Long term expectation is for transfer of responsibility for delivery of outputs to existing institutions and MS

4. Background SARPAM funding provided by DFID-Southern Africa Inception Phase: Nov 2009 to Oct 2010 Establish baseline for programme SARPAM = consortium Re-Action + HERA Implementation Phase: July 2011 to March 2015 Budget of GBP 3,3 million Support implementation SADC Pharmaceutical Business Plan

5. SADC Pharmaceutical Business Plan Overall Goal: To Ensure Availability of Essential Medicines including African Traditional Medicines to Reduce Disease Burden in the Region Objective: To improve sustainable availability and access to affordable, quality, safe, effective essential medicines to the SADC region

6. Strategies of SADC PBP 1.[Harmonizing standard treatment guidelines and essential medicines lists] 2.Strengthening regulatory capacity, supply and distribution of pharma products by ensuring fully functional Regulatory Authorities 3.Promoting joint procurement of essential medicines 4.[Developing and retaining competent HR for pharma programme]

7. Strategies of SADC PBP (cont) 5.[Developing mechanisms to respond to emergency pharmaceutical needs of the region] 6.Facilitate trade in pharmaceuticals within SADC 7.[Rationalizing & maximizing research and production capacity of local generic essential medicines and African Traditional Medicines] 8.[Establishing a regional databank of traditional medicines, medicinal plants and procedures to ensure their protection ]

8. Relevant SARPAM Activities for this workshop TRIPS Provide advice to MS for implementation of TRIPS flexibilities and safeguards to facilitate trade in pharmaceuticals across SADC region Civil Society Use of community monitors to gather information at community level among MS – will start with 8 SADC countries (TENDAI project)

9. Achievements to Date SADC Flagship Course for Pharmaceutical reform for multi-stakeholder country teams (July 2011) InfoHub: http://www.medicinesinfohub.net/http://www.medicinesinfohub.net/ SADC pooled procurement strategy approved by SADC Ministers of Health November 2012 Facilitated production of draft African Medicines Regulatory Harmonisation Initiative proposal for SADC M & E Plan for SADC PBP implementation submitted to Pharmaceutical Advisory Committee (PAC)

10. SARPAM activities beyond PBP Infohub on medicines information: – http://www.medicinesinfohub.net/ http://www.medicinesinfohub.net/ Innovation Fund: – http://www.sarpam.net/about-sarpam- 2/pacts/pharmaceutical-market-innovations http://www.sarpam.net/about-sarpam- 2/pacts/pharmaceutical-market-innovations Civil society TENDAI project – www.sarpam.net/about-sarpam-2/pacts/civil- society www.sarpam.net/about-sarpam-2/pacts/civil- society

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