African Medicines Agency Treaty Alliance
IFPMA is a founding member of the African Medicines Agency Treaty Alliance (AMATA), set up to advocate for the rapid ratification and implementation of the African Medicines Agency Treaty (AMA).
Overview
AMATA is a multistakeholder alliance representing patients, academia, civil society, and members of industry who have come together to advocate for the African Medicines Agency (AMA).
The goal is to galvanize and coordinate non-state actors to engage with the AMA. In this way, AMATA will help the AMA succeed in its mission of offering equitable access to quality, safe, and efficacious medicines and technologies for pandemic preparedness and a healthy Africa.
AMATA’s mission is to help strengthen the African pharmaceutical regulatory system and enable more timely access to innovative, safe, quality, and effective medicines and medical devices.
The goals of AMATA
Seek to engage at technical and political levels
Become a key member of the conversation between the AMA, civil society, and the private sector
Potentially shape governance and management of AMA from within
AMATA's objectives
Accelerate the ratification and implementation of the AMA
Be the centralized body galvanizing all non-state actor engagement in the further development and implementation of the AMA
Make sure that the AMA engages with patients and a range of stakeholders who could potentially benefit from regulatory harmonization and are willing to share their expertise
Lobby the AMA for a mechanism to bring technical expertise from a range of stakeholders to the table
Promote R&D of new medical products that will guarantee quality, safe, and fast access
Ensure there are regulatory convergence and reliance mechanisms that enable AMA to deliver to the same standards as other regional agencies
Call for AMA’s Governing Board to recognize patients as key partners
Steering the work of AMATA
Membership criteria
AMATA is a membership organization. Eligible organizations include:
- Non-governmental and other civil society organizations engaged in African health development
- African health professional associations such as those representing doctors, nurses, community health workers, and pharmacists.
- African academic and research bodies
- Non-state actors in official relationship with the WHO and their African members or chapters
- Public-private partnerships, including medicines and health devices
- African and international trade associations
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