{"id":1139,"date":"2026-06-08T02:29:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T06:29:14","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-06-08T02:29:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T06:29:14","slug":"pharma-industries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/c2creset.ondigit.us\/?p=1139","title":{"rendered":"Pharma Industries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 102, 136);\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Pharmaceutical Industries<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/2025-pics\/BF_Hub-for-healthcare.jpg\" width=\"277\" height=\"181\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Starting with the construction of a Biotech Training University in Burkina Faso, the <a href=\"\/userfiles\/file\/India_Africa%20Economic%20Coop.pdf\"><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 255);\">Indian Pharma industry<\/span><\/a> may invest upto US$50B worth of facilities and specialists, spread out over BF, the train local students, and produce the most needed vaccines\/products for part of the African Market:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">India can collaborate with Africa to establish joint manufacturing facilities through the supply of Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (API). Indian companies can assist with the setting up of telemedicine centers under e-VidyaBharti and e-ArogyaBharti (e-VBAB) and set up a chain of Indian hospitals in African countries. There is also a growing market for herbal medicines and alternative therapies.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">The Indian industry can undertake collaborative research on infectious diseases with a focus on developing vaccines. India can also provide support for improving diagnostics for neglected tropical diseases. <\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">India and Africa can organize annual industrial conventions between pharmaceutical companies and business leaders, and set up a common e-marketplace for healthcare innovations between India and Africa. <\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Investing in education and training for healthcare professionals and pharmaceutical scientists can help address the skills gap in the sector.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Indian and African governments can offer incentives facilitating greater investment from private investors and development banks. <\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">India can support in creating effective strategies for healthcare data collection, which can be used for policy making and real time data monitoring. <\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Members of the industry can work with the Government in creating a healthcare fund which can help augment healthcare infrastructure and can be used to finance the development of small and medium sized enterprises.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Indian healthcare companies should consider helping in hospital management and training of doctors and nurses in African countries.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"280\" height=\"155\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/orUS_Fb2tEU?si=JDbUB8QuNXNd8rAC\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 255);\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">A landmark for South-South cooperation.<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">The projects will increase the availability of essential medications in rural hospitals, through shorter and faster supply chains, leading to fewer expired and counterfeit drugs in the stores. The project is aimed at health independence, economic growth, and reducing reliance on Western imports.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/2025-pics\/Safer-drugs.jpg\" width=\"277\" height=\"104\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">As health products will be distributed with dignity and sovereignty, the guarantee of availability of emergency drug reserves for epidemics and other health crisis allover the African continent will be enhanced.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/2025-pics\/BF-Africa-heal-itself.jpg\" width=\"277\" height=\"136\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">High-tech-parks will be created for health-start-ups.<br \/>\nWhat may be built:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00f0\u0178\u008f\u00ad <span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Mega pharmaceutical city with:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">State-of-the-art factories.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Biotech training university.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Biotechnology research labs.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Solar-powered infrastructure.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Various drug distribution hubs.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00f0\u0178\u2019\u0160<span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"> Focus Areas:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Production of affordable vaccines, antibiotics, malaria\/HIV drugs, and emergency medicines.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Tailored for Africa&rsquo;s specific healthcare needs.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00f0\u0178\u201c\u02c6 <span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Economic Impact:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Over 250,000 new jobs created.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">To rise Burkina Faso&rsquo;s GDP by 18% within a decade.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Estimated US$12B\/year in medicine exports by 2030.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00f0\u0178\u017d\u201c <span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Education &amp; Innovation:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">New biotech university to train scientists\/pharmacists.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Joint R&amp;D between Indian and African experts.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00f0\u0178\u0152\u008d <span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Pan-African Reach:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Distribution network to serve all of Africa&#8217;s rural areas.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00e2\u2122\u00bb\u00ef\u00b8\u008f <span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Sustainable &amp; Smart:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Projects powered by renewable energy (solar\/biomass).<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Designed for affordability and environment-protection.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/2025-pics\/Rural-support.jpg\" width=\"222\" height=\"133\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">The UN Economic Commission for Africa stated that generic drugs are up to <span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 255);\"><strong>30 times<\/strong> more expensive in many African countries compared to EU nations like the UK. Because of the COVID-19 disaster, countries worldwide recognized the need to develop local production of medicines. Thus,<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">On 29\/8\/2022, Burkina Faso inaugurated a US$23Mio modern drug manufacturing plant. It was built through a private initiative of Burkinabe pharmacists who set up their own Ltd.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/2025-pics\/Propharm-BF.jpg\" width=\"299\" height=\"132\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 255);\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">3000 sqm Propharm plant<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">The &#8216;Propharm&#8217; plant seeks to increase the percentage of locally-produced drugs at a time when African countries import 97% of the pharmaceutical products they use.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/2025-pics\/BF-Pharma-innovation.jpg\" width=\"277\" height=\"130\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Certified by an independent EU organization, the plant produces paracetamol 500 mg, phloroglucinol, an antispasmodic as well as a kit of oral rehydration salts and zinc for the treatment of diarrhea.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/2025-pics\/Farmaplant-BF.jpg\" width=\"222\" height=\"144\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">The complete chain allows the plant to do granulation, mixing, capsule filling, compression, coating, etc. The whole was &lsquo;designed&rsquo; by Italians. The equipment was acquired in the USA. Its current capacity meets the local needs, including the production of drugs for the management of malaria. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">The plant will sell the medicines to BF&rsquo;s population at a lower cost. The product, in its current state, with all the charges and costs, is competitive. The margins are not huge, because they are in a market where a lot of drugs come from India or China, which are very difficult to compete with.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/2025-pics\/BF-Farmacy.jpg\" width=\"333\" height=\"130\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 255);\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Veterinary Medicine Production:<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Burkina Faso&rsquo;s first vet drug plant is expected to save US$18Mio yearly on imports.<br \/>\n    <\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">The US$36Mio factory will create over 600 jobs.<br \/>\n    <\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">The 2025 construction of Burkina Faso&rsquo;s first <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Veterinary_medicine\"><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 255);\">veterinary pharmaceutical<\/span><\/a> manufacturing plant will help the country reduce its reliance on imported animal medicines and boost local industrial production.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">The plant will help prevent shortages, limit animal disease outbreaks across borders, and meet local demand for veterinary medicine. The facility will produce drugs that include vaccines for mass immunization campaigns, as well as antibiotics, anti-inflammatories, vitamins, and anti-parasitics.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">The plant can produce 50Mio doses of liquid vaccines and 60Mio doses of freeze-dried (lyophilized) vaccines annually, enough to meet domestic needs and support exports. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Veterinary drugs are essential not only for treating animal diseases but also for improving livestock productivity and ensuring the safety of animal-based food products.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/2025-pics\/BF-faces-future.jpg\" width=\"266\" height=\"147\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><strong><a href=\"?p=1140\"><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 255);\">read more &#8230;<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pharmaceutical Industries Starting with the construction of a Biotech Training University in Burkina Faso, the Indian Pharma industry may invest upto US$50B worth of facilities and specialists, spread out over BF, the train local students, and produce the most needed vaccines\/products for part of the African Market: India can collaborate with Africa to establish joint&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c2creset.ondigit.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c2creset.ondigit.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c2creset.ondigit.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c2creset.ondigit.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c2creset.ondigit.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/c2creset.ondigit.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c2creset.ondigit.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c2creset.ondigit.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c2creset.ondigit.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}