We started to build a roadmap with many milestones that we wanted to achieve for this continent. All of this has to be built from the…
In Conversation
The opportunity is huge for the government to bring in a universal health insurance scheme. As the private industry, we need to participate in helping make…
AbbVie’s increased focus on Egypt has been driven by the reforms that have been happening here, including the creation of the Egypt Drug Authority (EDA), the…
At EVA Pharma, we are trying to be a pan-African company and, while we already have a presence in Western Europe and the Middle East, we…
We are looking to bring in about 11 to 13 new innovative products in the upcoming three years, which is very exciting for the country.
Egypt is ... appealing due to its size, healthcare reform, and the new National Health Insurance Program launch. Egypt has the largest population in the Arab…
Egypt as a country is moving at high speed, with lots of new projects and a high demand for innovation, which we need to match as…
Marianne Abou Elkheir – General Manager & Head of Human Pharma, Levant, Iraq, North-East Africa & Sub-Saharan Africa, Boehringer Ingelheim

Across all the countries under my leadership, I am aware of potential challenges that may stand in our way of achieving our goals. This is why…
There is a great deal of governmental support for this initiative [to decrease the number of patients born every year with thalassemia] both in verbal and…
Very few countries with populations of over 100 million have such an ambitious goal to bring the entire population under universal health coverage by 2030. We…
With a healthcare system transformation underway and an increasing governmental openness to change; there are many more opportunities for Novartis to partner here. The current healthcare…
Ashraf Ismail – Chairman, General Authority for Healthcare Accreditation & Regulation (GAHAR), Egypt

Quality is vital because we simply cannot afford to re-do procedures. Without this, patients will be re-admitted to hospitals, have to change their medications, or have…