Strengthening national pharmaceutical regulation through local production

International audienceThis chapter provides a history of pharmaceutical regulation from independence to the present in Ghana, Côte d’Ivoire, and Benin. It highlights the evolution of the pharmaceutical regulatory system in the three countries and the different choices that have been made in terms of medicines supply and support for local pharmaceutical production by the States. It also takes into account the influence of transnational actors in the various reform movements at work with a tendency to create agencies with a relatively autonomous status with respect to the State. This chapter seeks to demonstrate how local production plays an important role in the strengthening of pharmaceutical regulation and contributes to the construction of pharmaceutical sovereignty of countrie