Policy Position of the South African Health Products Regulatory Authority on Enabling Local Manufacturing

During the last decade, promoting sustainable access to quality and affordable medicines has been of significant concern to African leaders. More recently the opportunity to promote local, regional and continental production of the medicines needed is considered as part of the overall health systems strengthening package. In accordance with its vision of being responsive and an enabler, SAHPRA has taken the position that, within its mandate of enabling access to medicines based on their safety, quality and therapeutic efficacy as per section 1(3) of the Medicines Act ,it will take steps to enable local manufacturing of health products.