Day One

Tuesday 12th Dec. 2017   

Draft Agenda

 

08:00 –  9:00 hrs  Registration 
09:00 –  10:00 hrs 

 

 Opening Remarks  
  • H.E Secretary General,  AUIED
  • H.E    State  Minister of  Industry  of Sudan
  • H.E Chairman of the Africa Healthcare Federation
  • H.E UNECA Representative
  • H.E WHO Representative
  • H.E. Secretary General of CAEU
  • H.E Chairman, AUIED
  • H.E League  of Arab States Representative
  • H.E Minister of Health of Sudan
  • H.E. Minister of Industry of Sudan
  • H.E     President of The Republic Of Sudan
10.00 –  11.00  hrs  Exhibition Tour,  Coffee Break and Press Encounter
11.00 –  12.30 

 

 Ministerial Session: Ministers of Industry and Ministers of Health

Panel Discussion on Healthcare Development in Africa  &  Arab countries  :

Challenges & Opportunities,: An Update from Ministries of Health Across Africa & Arab Countries about:

  •  Progress and plans for 2018
  • Government initiatives
  • What are the industry leaders doing to reduce primary healthcare risk and challenges  across the continent?
12.30 –  13.30  hrs Panel Discussion : Expanding the Coverage of Quality Healthcare
  •  Developments in Africa  & Arab Countries  Healthcare provision in the last year.
  •  Current market characteristics
  • How can we work together on a global level to tackle the issues
  • Africa i& Arab countries are  facing?
13.30 –  14.30  hrs Panel discussion: Financing Healthcare
  •  Current financing models –  successes
  • Private funding and the role that private health insurance can fulfill
  •  What state budgets and models are setting a strong example?
  • The role of private sector financing and delivery.
  Panel Discussion: Best Practice in Public Healthcare Development:
  • Finance/funding though PPP and the role of a development fund
  •  Working with an NGO
  • Training, education and human resources
14.30  –  15.30  hrs Panel Discussion : Partnership  Business Models To Change Healthcare Delivery: 
  • Discuss out-of-the-box business models that are transforming
  •  healthcare systems and how Africa  & Arab Countries  can adopt them
  • Highlight existing Siemens partnerships that can enable healthcare
  • markets to make step changes in development, through a structured program of tailored and flexible services
  • Establish a framework of key imperatives to ensure that changes are Sustainable
15.30 –  16.00 Closing remarks
16.00 Lunch Break and Networking

Day Two

 Wednesday 13th Dec. 2017   

Draft Agenda

08:00 – 9:00 hrs Registration
09:00 –  10:00 hrs 

 

 Panel Session: Sudan: A Country of Opportunity for Pharmaceutical Industries:
  • Sudan new Investment Law
  • Advantages and incentives of Investment in Sudan.
  • Investment opportunities in Pharmaceutical industries in Sudan
  • Successful Stories in Sudan
10.00 –  11.00  hrs  Panel Session: Pharmaceutical and Medical Equipment

Manufacturing in Arab Countries and Africa

  • Is the regulatory environment of Arab-African countries & in Sudan in particular supportive enough of local manufacturing?
  • How can it be improved?
  • Counterfeit and sub-standard medicines – to what extent does quality assurance drive patient purchasing behavior?
  • How Arab- African manufacturers can compete?
11.00 – 11.30 hrs Coffee Break and Exhibition Tour
11.30 – 12.30 hrs Panel Session: Modernizing pharmaceutical marketing, sales, and market access operations in Arab Countries and across Africa:
  • Where should branded and generics manufacturers invest to grow market share?
  • Sales force composition – what makes an effective rep in 2018?
  •  What is the demand like for medical liaisons and science led communication?
  • Multichannel marketing and social media in pharmaceuticals – is it worth the investment? How to create sales force effectiveness
12.30 – 13.30 hrs Panel Session: Medicine approval across Africa, will there ever beuniversal approval?
  • African Medicines Regulatory Harmonisation (AMRH).
  • Local manufacturing faces an inordinate range of challenges not the least of which is gaining WHO and FDA certification and accreditation, how does this effect the local manufacturing landscape?
  • Regulatory mechanisms offer some fast-track for local manufacturing but even so, the percentage of products that can supply local needs
13.30 – 14.30 hrs Panel Session :Pharmaceuticals Financing
  • Why Pharmaceuticals finance is important?
  • Financing options for essential Medicines
  • Private Sector finance
  • Public Sector Finance through government budgets.
  • Donor finance & development Loans
14.30  –  15.30  hrs Panel Session: Pharmaceutical Packaging
  • Trends in cheaper and higher quality packaging and raw materials.
  • what can high quality packaging demand tell us about the pharmaceutical
  • manufacturing capacity across the continent?
  • How can better packaging deliver quality assurance and brand security?
  • A snapshot of new innovations in anti-counterfeiting and anti-substandard technologies
15.30 –  16.00 Closing Remarks & Final Declaration
16.00 Lunch Break