Tagged with MEA

Middle East & Africa  Fujifilm’s managing director for the Middle East, Michio Kondo, outlines the company’s move from products to comprehensive healthcare solutions, and how this transformation aligns with the GCC region’s view on the future of healthcare. In addition, Kondo comments on the recognition of the made-in-Japan brand, the implementation of AI in…

Africa David Mukanga of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation gives an overview of the latest developments on the long road towards the creation of an African Medicines Agency and the push to establish vaccine manufacturing facilities on the continent.   Since the minimum number of 15 ratifications by African Union…

Egypt Four years after Egypt enacted a new universal health law, the country’s pharmaceutical market has consolidated itself as the fastest growing in the Middle East and Africa, far outpacing Saudi Arabia, South Africa, the UAE and Algeria. With USD 6.3 billion in value, Egyptian pharma is about to double its…

MEA The Middle East and Africa, combined, represent the world’s fifth largest regional pharma market. According to IQVIA’s recent figures, most of the largest markets grew, although slowly due to COVID lockdowns, with Saudi Arabia in the top position. Multinational companies continue to “dominate” the region with Gilead Sciences experiencing huge…

MEA The Middle East and Africa (MEA) medtech market is expected to grow from a value of USD 16.6 billion in 2019 to USD 21.8 billion at a CAGR of 3.6 percent by 2027, according to Business Market Insights. Read on for five crucial trends impacting MEA medtech and how the…

Saudi Arabia IQVIA Vice President and General Manager Saudi Arabia & Egypt Mohamed Mostafa gives his expert insights into the transformation of the Saudi pharma market in recent years, covering everything from procurement to regulatory, reimbursement, clinical trials, localisation, health economics, and digitalisation. Mostafa also outlines how IQVIA has adapted its Saudi…

UAE Tarek El Rahbani, Senior Regional Director for EMEA Growth Emerging Markets – South at Boston Scientific, highlights the transformation of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region’s medical technology market, the implications of having subregions with some of the highest demand for new technology in the world under the…

UAE The Managing Director of Dubai Science Park (DSP), Marwan Abdulaziz Janahi, comments on Dubai’s success in becoming a regional hub for life sciences companies, the challenging reality of localizing high-tech manufacturing, and the move towards specialized centers of excellence within Dubai’s hospital infrastructure.   The community DSP is building comprises…

Kenya Medicines for Africa’s Lenias Hwenda examines the significance of Moderna’s USD 500 million investment into African manufacturing, other agreements in place to boost manufacturing capacity on the continent, and why a more equally distributed global pharmaceutical manufacturing network is in the interest of the entire planet.   Many Africans welcome…

UAE Fokion Sinis, Sanofi Vaccines’ General Manager for the Greater Gulf Multi Country Organisation, outlines some of the key impacts that the COVID-19 pandemic has had on the vaccine industry, the five ‘A’s of successful vaccination campaigns, and his ambitions for the future at a moment of great transformation for both…

MEA On International Women’s Day 2022, Inna Nadelwais, executive director at Middle East and Africa medtech trade association Mecomed, examines the road still to travel towards true gender parity in the MEA medtech workforce, and why diversity, inclusion, and equality in the workplace benefits all parties.   The MEA region continues…

Global Less than two months passed between the WHO’s official pandemic declaration and remdesivir’s emergency use authorisation in the United States in May 2020. Today, the intravenous antiviral, sold by Gilead Sciences under the brand name Veklury, has generated over USD 8 billion in sales.   Remdesivir’s success as a treatment…