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Morocco From Morocco to the world, ABA Technology is an industrialisation, integration, and software development service partner providing solutions to private and public sector stakeholders in four continents. Vice President Amer Benouda lays out some of the company’s key success stories thus far; its future international expansion plans; and its mission…

Global Well-informed and data-driven healthcare decision making has never been more important. Healthcare systems across the world – in both developed and developing contexts – are grappling with the challenge of providing quality treatments and services to patients while ensuring that their money is well spent. At the forefront of helping…

Morocco Looking back on 11 years of business experience in Morocco, Jean-Charles Damblin of the country’s French Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCI) is more optimistic than ever about the business opportunities that Morocco presents. Although the USA recently overtook France as Morocco’s largest foreign investor, Damblin suggests that there are…

Global The speed with which Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccines were brought forward may have made the mRNA technology behind them appear novel. In fact, the pioneers whose discoveries enabled the creation of these vaccines, recent Nobel prize winners Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman, had been working on the mRNA and…

Morocco Three years on from his last PharmaBoardroom interview, Karim Lahlou highlights the evolution of Moroccan pharma manufacturer Iberma as it expands its activities from solely in-licensing to developing and selling its own products, growing its global partnership base, and looking to penetrate international markets while leveraging the growing reputation of…

France France’s life sciences industry is falling behind its European neighbours, its growth deeply hampered, the French life sciences think tank G5 Santé claims, by abusive paybacks. While the government has demonstrated its willingness to take steps towards levelling its pricing barometers and in so doing tackle medicine shortages and build…

Global New methodology for the 2024 Access to Medicine Index promises a stronger attempt to quantify whether drugs, vaccines, and diagnostics are actually making it all the way to patients in poorer countries around the world.   Industry stakeholders eagerly await the biennial publication of the Access to Medicine Index, a…

Morocco DHL’s Tina Manoukian lays out how the global logistics giant helped ensure the safe and timely distribution of medicines and vaccines during the COVID-19 pandemic, outlines the scope and scale of DHL operations in Morocco, and explains why the country is well positioned to become a distribution and logistics hub…

UAE From humble origins, taiba can now count on a unique two decades of experience in bringing innovative rare disease products to patients across the MENA region. The Dubai headquartered company, now branding itself as the partner of choice for rare diseases across the region, has also moved to create a…

UAE Thanks to favourable regulations from the Ministry of Health and Prevention (MoHaP) which include fast-track regulatory pathways, patients in the UAE are gaining access to innovative medicines in similar time frames to their counterparts in the US and Europe, in some cases even ahead. Against this backdrop, the representatives of…

Global Shawview Consulting’s Brendan Shaw looks back on a sombre United Nations High Level Meeting on Universal Health Coverage in New York last month, as stakeholders reflected on the long road still to travel if the goal of securing UHC for the world’s population by 2030 is to be met. Shaw…

Global Merck’s Kaushal Kishore attempts to illustrate why pharma companies have struggled to crack what he calls “the Gross to Net (GtN) code.” He outlines the maturity journey for a pharma commercial and pricing organisation which can lead to maturity on the GtN topic, and highlights a successful example that can…