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Making Medicine in Sub-Saharan Africa
 Professor Steve Byrn helps Africans make high-quality medicines for Africans.
In August 2011, IPPH's Dr. Stephen R. Byrn taught the IPPH 562 manufacturing lab course at the Kilimanjaro School of Pharmacy (KSP) in Moshi, Tanzania. About 24 students from eight African countries attended, including a dean and a department head from Nigerian universities. Three Purdue grad students and a Howard University grad student ran the labs.
Working under GMP-like conditions, African students made large quantities of Tylenol tablets. Two groups made Efavirenz anti-AIDS tablets. "We think this was the third and fourth time Efavirenz had been manufactured in [sub-Saharan] Africa," says Byrn. "Two groups also synthesized piperaquine and DHA and made piperaquine-DHA tablets (anti-malarials). We believe the synthesis of piperaquine
and DHA and the manufacture of the tablets was the first time that had ever been done in Africa."
For more information, see
Sustainable Medicine in Tanzania.
Read the rest of the article in our current IPPH newsletter.
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