How to encourage Industry to Commercialise Veterinary Medicinal Products in Africa ?

How to encourage Industry to Commercialise Veterinary Medicinal Products in Africa ?

Frans van Gool DVM RSHHM

Merial International SAS, Lyon, France (Member of IFAH)

OIE Conference on Veterinary Products in AfricaDakar, Senegal 25 – 27 March 2008

How to encourage Industry to Commercialise Veterinary

Medicinal Products in Africa ?

To whom it may concern……

How to encourage Industry to Commercialise

Veterinary Medicinal Products in Africa ?

• Introduction

• Real African Animal Production REVOLUTION • Farmers MENTALITY and EDUCATION are changing very

fast • From «quantity farming» to Sustainable QUALITY FARMING

=> High Quality Animal Products => Export Opportunities Results in HIGH ADDED VALUE • Need for HIGH QUALITY VETERINARY DRUGS

• This is very encouraging for the Veterinary Pharmaceutical Industry


• Actual Situation for Veterinary Medicinal Products in Africa

• Overcrowded with fake and low quality “generics”• Senegal: 140 registered Veterinary products but more than 1000 marketed • Difficulties for Farmers to have access to Quality Drugs • Products with same Active Ingredient are ALL sold at

more or less the same price to farmers => strong interest to promote only low quality “generic”

products => Very High Margins => MONEY-MAKERS


• Actual Situation for Veterinary Medicinal Products in Africa • Distribution Systems for Veterinary drugs => Legal: Importer-> distributor -> Veterinarians : VET-SHOPS -> Pharmacists

=> Illegal: Market Places and in the Streets

• Field Veterinarians : Very few, field work carried out by “technicians” with low professional education

• Veterinary Services ?

Vaccines?

Respect of Temperature ?

Some VET-SHOPS in WEST AFRICA (2006)

Itinerant salesman at the weekly market of Touba-Toul(department of Thiès)

Sales of Veterinary Drugs placed on the ground by a salesman at the market of Touba-Toul (department of Thiès)

Sales of Veterinary Drugs on the weekly market of Ndiguiraye (department of Nioro du Rip)

(PicturesWalbadet, L. (2007)

Senegal

• Actual Situation for Veterinary Medicinal Products in Africa

• Registration Authorities (RA) : very often still NO real RA in many African Countries

• Several International Conferences (5) to raise awareness of African Officials to put in place Quality Insurance procedures

=> very few signs of improvement

• Many recent studies and reports indicate the existence of huge quantities of LOW Quality registered and NON-registered drugs in Africa


• Study carried out in 2001 by FAO

• 104 samples of Diminazene of • 19 different brand names• In 11 African countries• Tolerance limit : 10%

32% of all diminazene products in Africa are not in conformity with label and insert leaflet (If 5% T.L.=> 56% are NON-CONFORM)

-Tettey J.et al. (2002): Non-conformance of Diminazene preparations to manufacturer’s label claims: an extra factor in the development of parasite resistance. In: Integrated Control of Pathogenic trypanosomes and their Vectors, 5:24-25.

Recent market surveys on the Distribution and Quality of Veterinary Drugs indicate the existence of huge

quantities of LOW Quality registered and NON-registered drugs in Africa

• Veterinary Theses on Quality of Veterinary Drugs of the Inter-State Veterinary School , Dakar, Senegal

• Ndjana F.M. (2006): Study of the Distribution and Quality of Veterinary Drugs in Cameroun

• Walbadet, L. (2007): Study of the Distribution and Quality of Veterinary Drugs in Senegal

• Material and Methods

• Market survey of different therapeutical groups of veterinary drugs collected in different regions in Cameroon and Senegal were analysed by LACOMEV, Senegal (Control Laboratory for Veterinary Drugs).

• Drugs were obtained as well as from the official markets (legal) as from the unregulated open markets (parallel markets)

• Tolerance limit ±10%

Table 1: Rate of NON-CONFORMANCE by Therapeutic Group in Cameroun

Therapeutic group

Number of samples analysed

Number of NON-CONFORMANCE samples

Rate of NON-CONFORMANCE

Trypanocidal drugs

11 11 100 %

Anthelminthics & endectocides

23 12 52 %

Antibiotics 14 10 71 %

Total 48 33 69 %

Recent studies and reports indicate the existence of huge quantities of LOW Quality registered and NON-registered drugs in Africa

Table 2: Rate of NON-CONFORMANCE by sampling sector in Cameroun

Sampling sector

Number of Samples analysed



Official market (legal)

28 18 64 %

Parallel market

20 15 75 %

Total 48 33 69 %


Table 3 : Rate of NON-CONFORMANCE by type of veterinary drugs in Senegal

Molecule Number of samples analysed



Albendazole 15 2 13,3 %

Diminazene 10 7 70 %

Oxytetracyclins 15 14 93,3 %

Ivermectine 15 14 93,3 %

Total 55 37 67 %


Table 4: Rate of NON-CONFORMANCE by sampling sector in Senegal

Sampling sector Number of Samples analysed



Official market (legal)

29 20 69 %

Parallel market 26 17 65 %

Total 55 37 67 %


Recent studies and reports indicate the existence of huge quantities of LOW Quality registered and NON-

registered drugs in Africa

• Other surveys conducted in Different African countries

Mali (Abiola 2001) showed NON-CONFORMANCE rate of 43%

Benin-Togo (Akoda 2001) showed NON-CONFORMANCE rate of 48% Mauritania (Abiola 2002) showed NON-CONFORMANCE rate of 59 % Chad ( Abiola 2005) showed a NON-CONFORMANCE rate of 61%

How to encourage Industry to Commercialise Veterinary Medicinal Products in Africa?

• What is Urgently Needed to Encourage Industry to Commercialise Veterinary Products in Africa?

Strong National or Regional Registration Authorities (eg UEMOA)

Very well organised and controlled Distribution System Strong CONTROL and REPRESSIVE Authorities Strong and good Functioning VETERINARY SERVICES Strong NATIONAL VETERINARY ASSOCIATIONS Creation of Independent Chemical-Analytical Laboratories

How to encourage Industry to Commercialise Veterinary Medicinal Products in Africa?

Conclusions • African market is becoming more and more interesting for

the Veterinary Animal Health Industry • Fast Growing Animal Production Market • Orientated more and more to Produce HIGH QUALITY

PRODUCTS • Sustainable farming • Improving Health of Livestock => Increase Productivity => Increase Food Safety => Create Export Opportunities

• Strong Need and Availability for High Quality , Registered Veterinary drugs

=> Significant Increase in the LIFE-STANDARD of African Farmers

Thank you very much for your attention

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How to encourage Industry to Commercialise Veterinary Medicinal Products in Africa ?