It is with our pleasure that we announce that NEOS Pharmaceuticals has begun the process of developing four new products to make them available in the Middle East and North Africa with the help of our affiliate United Pharma for Marketing, currently based in Dubai. The first product will take the form of a gel…
As Egypt rolls out Universal Health Insurance with the aim of achieving full coverage between 2030 and 2035, the domestic pharmaceutical market stands to see significant long-term shifts. As self-medication is currently the cheapest form of treatment, out-of-pocket expenditures make up 62 percent of total health expenditure; a number which is expected to drop only…
The 100 Million Seha (100 Million healthy lives) campaign, which kicked off on a national scale in October 2018 under the auspices of President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, aims to detect and eliminate Hepatitis C in Egypt by 2023. The ground-breaking initiative, organized by the Ministry of Health and Population, has been hailed as one of…
Rates of tuberculosis (TB) have dropped dramatically in Egypt over the last 30 years, but there is still work to be done, with the country’s Ministry of Health recently announcing a new campaign to combat the prevalence of the disease Thanks to the rollout of a national anti-TB programme, the TB infection rate in Egypt…
On Tuesday, February 12th, Pharmaboardroom attended a breakfast event hosted by the British Egyptian Business Association (BEBA) on competition law at the Cairo Semiramis Intercontinental Hotel. The theme for the event was competition law and its application in the Egyptian market, with the topic being introduced through a speech by Sir Geoffrey Adams, the British Ambassador in…
Last week saw the first meeting of the board of Egypt’s new Universal Healthcare Authority (UHA) managed by the Minister of Finance, Mohamed Maait. Created to oversee the implementation of the new universal health insurance system, it will be put in place in July 2019. The new system will also aim to overcome glitches in…
The Health Committee of the Egyptian House of Representatives is preparing to discuss a draft law from the government on the establishment of the “Egyptian Drug Authority.” The new entity will specialise in all medicine-related issues, from pricing to shortages to registering new drugs. Similarly to Europe’s European Medicine Agency or the Food and Drug Association…