Jessica Pourraz

Le paludisme constitue un problème majeur de santé publique au Ghana qui dépend du soutien des programmes de santé globale pour la distribution des traitements. Ils conditionnent leurs financements à l’achat de médicaments à la qualité certifiée par l’Organisation mondiale de la santé, label dont les firmes ghanéennes ne bénéficient pas faute de mo...

Bacteriophages (or phages) are viruses that have bacteria as their hosts. Discovered a century ago, and rapidly used as therapeutic agents to treat bacterial infections, they were nevertheless eclipsed by the massive rise of antibiotics from the 1940s onward. Faced with the major public health scourge of antimicrobial resistance, some scientists an...

Le Ghana et le Bénin dépendent des subventions internationales pour approvisionner en médicaments antipaludiques leurs secteurs publics - et pour une partie le secteur privé ghanéen à partir de 2010. Les acteurs transnationaux construisent des réseaux d’approvisionnement qui entrent en concurrence avec les dispositifs nationaux existants. La multip...

This scientific meetings taked place in march the 26th to 29th 2018, in the city of Ouidah, Benin. Through this international colloquium, we have discussed the multiple stakes surrounding pharmaceuticals in Africa today, with particular consideration of their markets, the political and economic actors which they mobilize, related instruments of reg...

While Global Health programs are supporting the public health sectors, the Affordable Medicines Facility-malaria (AMF-m), implemented by the Global Fund between 2010 and 2012 in Ghana, enabled Artemisinin Combinations Therapies (ACTs) to cure malaria to be made available mainly in the private sector. Based on market forces, the AMF-m brings in comp...

Computer-aided detection algorithms based on artificial intelligence are increasingly being tested and used as a means for detecting tuberculosis in countries where the epidemic is still present. Computer-aided detection tools are often presented as a global solution that can be deployed in all the geographical areas concerned by tuberculosis, but...

The COVID-19 epidemic has highlighted the risks of shortages resulting from dependence on medicine imports. Today's situation where a few companies in the Global North control COVID-19 vaccine production is having dire consequences on African countries' access. However, the challenges surrounding local production of medical products in Africa are l...

Phage therapy, the use of bacteriophage viruses to treat bacterial infections, has existed for more than a hundred years. However, the practice is struggling to develop, despite growing support over the past 15 years from researchers and doctors, who see it as a promising therapy in the context of the rise of antimicrobial resistance (AMR). While t...

This communication is about conflicts between local production of medicines in Africa and their supply through Global Health programs. The example of the antimalarial medicines subsidy mechanisms in Ghana.

This communication is about the inequality in norms and standards around antimalarial medicines and the project to create a bioequivalence center in Ghana.

This poster is about the challenges faced by for the local pharmaceutical manufacturers of antimalarials medicines in Ghana facing the Global Fund’s purchasing policy of medicines.

This poster is about the role of the Global Health Initiatives in Benin and their consequences regarding the multiplication of antimalarial medicines supply networks in the public sector.