Tagged with Tunisia

Tunisia Senda Bahri Hicheri, director of the National Control Laboratory of Tunisia (LNCM), is looking forward to helping Tunisian pharmaceutical players thrive by allowing them to profit from both shorter market access times and an upcoming accreditation for the laboratory. In this interview, she explains the key role the LNCM is…

Tunisia Christophe Sauer, president at Sephire, the association of innovative pharmaceutical companies in Tunisia, talks us through the challenges that innovative MNCs are facing in the country, especially in terms of pricing, but also highlights the important efforts that have been made in public-private dialogues. Mr. Sauer, could you please introduce…

Tunisia The long-awaited conference marking the launch of the company cluster of Sidi Thabet (a city in the governorate of Ariana, 20 minutes from Tunis airport) took place on September 28th 2017 at the Tunis export centre (CEPEX) and revolved around the theme: “Sidi Thabet BioTechpole: serving innovation in the pharmaceutical…

Tunisia Hatem Hachicha is Pfizer’s former manager for Tunisia, Libya and French-speaking African countries. He believes Tunisia’s pharmaceutical industry development will be achieved through internationalization and a shift towards biosimilars drugs. Co-founder of SEPHIRE and an active member of the Tunisian healthcare community, he stresses that one of the challenges in…

Tunisia Khalil Laabidi, general manager of the Tunisian Foreign Investment Promotion Agency (FIPA) since 2014, discusses his organization’s responsibility for attracting foreign investment in line with the government’s objective of economic transformation, increasing technology transfer and making Tunisia a capital-intensive economy. What is the role of FIPA and how has it…

Tunisia Habib Gaïda, general manager of the Tunisian-French Chamber of Commerce and Industry, shares his determination to encourage the return of French companies in Tunisia to counterbalance the presence of new incumbents in the country such as China and Turkey. The chamber is primarily concerned with the promotion of partnerships and…

Tunisia Inès Fradi, general manager of the DPM (Directory of the Pharmacy and Medicine in Tunisia), explains the particularities of the Tunisian healthcare system and the work of the DPM in regulatory affairs as well as its interactions with the other private and public entities. She presents the recent achievements of…

Egypt The table below shows highlighted markets in the MENA region, and their performance in 2013. Saudi Arabia is the largest pharma market in the region, with Iraq as the fastest growing market.