Description

This policy brief draws from a Scinnovent Centre commissioned study, a component of the broader African Science Granting Councils Initiative (SGCI) Theme 3. This study demonstrates the role of private public partnerships (PPPs) in addressing global and local health inequity through market adjustment, and exemplifies the importance of local embedment of local pharmaceutical suppliers/manufacturers among poor populations in low-middle income countries to drive sustainable social inclusion and local health security. The study also unpacks the context-specific social, economic, political, geographic, and epidemiological factors that cannot be successfully examined without anchoring the lens on the sub-regional, regional and global political economies. The study thus expands literature for the southern African region hitherto disproportionately focused on public-private engagement in South Africa with little known about the other countries, outside of Zimbabwe and Mozambique.