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Algeria | |
Angola | |
Benin | |
Botswana | |
Burkina Faso | |
Burundi | |
Cameroon | |
Cape Verde | |
Central African Republic | |
Chad | |
Comoros | |
Congo | |
Côte d’Ivoire | |
Djibouti | |
DRC | |
Egypt | |
Equatorial Guinea | |
Eritrea | |
Eswatini | |
Ethiopia | |
Gabon | |
Gambia | |
Ghana | |
Guinea | |
Guinea-Bissau | |
Kenya | |
Lesotho | |
Liberia | |
Libya | |
Madagascar | |
Malawi | |
Mali | |
Mauritania | |
Mauritius | |
Morocco | |
Mozambique | |
Namibia | |
Niger | |
Nigeria | |
Rwanda | |
SADR | |
São Tomé and Príncipe | |
Senegal | |
Seychelles | |
Sierra Leone | |
Somalia | |
South Africa | |
South Sudan | |
Sudan | |
Tanzania | |
Togo | |
Tunisia | |
Uganda | |
Zambia | |
Zimbabwe |
Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health | |
Life expectancy at birth | |
Maternal mortality ratio | |
Stillbirth rate | |
Neonatal mortality rate | |
Infant mortality rate | |
Under 5 mortality rate | |
Antenatal care coverage: 4+ visits | |
Antenatal care coverage: 8+ visits | |
Births attended by skilled health personnel | |
Postpartum care coverage for mothers | |
Postnatal care coverage for newborns | |
Exclusive breastfeeding for infants under 6 months | |
Coverage of first dose of measles vaccination | |
Stunting - short height for age under age 5 | |
Wasting – low weight for height under age 5 | |
Overweight - heavy for height under 5 | |
Sexual and Reproductive Health | |
Child marriage before age 15 | |
Child marriage before age 18 | |
Female genital mutilation | |
Sexual violence by age 18 - female | |
Sexual violence by age 18 - male | |
Very early child bearing under age 16 | |
Adolescent birth rate ages 15 to 19 | |
Contraceptive prevalance rate, modern methods, all women | |
Demand satisfied for modern contraception | |
Communicable Diseases | |
New HIV infections | |
Antiretroviral treatment coverage | |
Preventing mother-to-child transmission of HIV | |
Condom use | |
New TB infections | |
New malaria infections | |
Non-Communicable Diseases | |
Mortality from non-communicable diseases | |
Suicide mortality rate | |
Current tobacco use among females aged 15 and over | |
Current tobacco use among males aged 15 and over | |
Harmful alcohol use aged 15 and over | |
Health Financing | |
External health expenditure as % current health expenditure | |
Government health expenditure as % current health expenditure | |
Government health expenditure as % GDP | |
Government health expenditure as % general govt expenditure | |
Government health expenditure per capita | |
Out-of-pocket health expenditure as % of current health expenditure | |
Percentage of national health budget allocated for reproductive health | |
Health systems and policies | |
Density of health workers - physicians | |
Density of health workers - nurses and midwives | |
Density of health workers - pharmaceutical staff | |
Qualified obstetricians | |
Birth registration | |
At least basic drinking water | |
At least basic sanitation services | |
Open defecation | |
Implementation of AMRH Initiative |
Full Name: | Implementation of the African Medicines Regulatory Harmonisation (AMRH) Initiative |
Year-range of Data: | 2018 |
Source: | New Partnership for Africa's Development, NEPAD, the technical body of the African Union |
Link to Source: | http://www.nepad.org/resources |
Date Source Published: | 20th February 2018 |
Date Source Accessed: | 20th February 2018 |
Through the African Medicines Regulatory Harmonization (AMRH), regional economic communities and organizations are supported to develop and implement Medicines Regulation Harmonization (MRH) projects that enable member states to harmonise technical requirements and standards, jointly assess applications and inspect manufacturing sites, and streamline decision making processes.
In many African countries, it has been a challenge to ensure the availability of safe, good quality and reasonably priced medicines. This is mainly contributed by non-existent, weak or out-of-date policies and legal frameworks, limited financial and human resources and weak infrastructure, just to mention a few. The objective of the AMRH programme is to improve regulatory capacity, establish and improve regulatory standards and requirements and facilitate access to safe and good quality medicines for African people. Initiated by Partners in 2009, the AMRH initiative focusses on harmonisation of processes and technical requirements for registration of generic medicines, with the ultimate goal being to expand the scope to cover all regulatory functions and products while transitioning into the establishment of the African Medicines Agency.
NEPAD as a technical arm of the African Union (AU) in collaboration with Partners, is supporting national medicines regulatory authorities (NMRAs) through their respective regional economic communities (RECs) and regional organizations (ROs) to harmonise regulatory policies, requirements, standards and practice in line with internationally acceptable norms. This includes activities such as pharmacovigilance, clinical trials oversight and registration of vaccines, medical devises and diagnostics among others depending on identified needs. The data are collected through NEPAD's Planning and Coordination Agency and from their MRH Project database.
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More about indicator and sources
The data are available from the NEPAD website following the link provided below:
http://www.nepad.org/resources
NEPAD are also developing 'Guidelines for Monitoring and Evaluation of Medical products Regulatory Systems and Harmonisation in Africa', which includes more than 30 indicators to assess country level progress in adhering to the AMRH. This monitoring framework will be available through the NEPAD website when finalised.
More information on calculations
This indicator shows which countries are participants to, and implementing, the AMRH Initiative.
You can read more about the AMRH initiative from the link on the NEPAD website: http://www.nepad.org/resources