{"id":902106,"date":"2026-04-28T03:31:23","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T08:31:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/28\/west-africa-moves-to-cut-medicine-import-reliance\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T03:31:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T08:31:23","slug":"west-africa-moves-to-cut-medicine-import-reliance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/28\/west-africa-moves-to-cut-medicine-import-reliance\/","title":{"rendered":"West Africa moves to cut medicine import reliance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>West African countries have been urged to urgently strengthen pharmaceutical supply chains and reduce heavy dependence on imported medicines, as the third edition of Pharma West Africa Exhibition &#038; Conference 2026 opened in Lagos on Tuesday. The conference brought together policymakers, regulators, manufacturers, investors, and health professionals from across the region under the theme \u201cPharmaceutical [\u2026&#8230; Sade Oguntola <br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/tribuneonlineng.com\/west-africa-moves-to-cut-medicine-import-reliance\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>West African countries have been urged to urgently strengthen pharmaceutical supply chains and reduce heavy dependence on imported medicines, as the third edition of Pharma West Africa Exhibition &amp; Conference 2026 opened in Lagos on Tuesday. The conference brought together policymakers, regulators, manufacturers, investors, and health professionals from across the region under the theme \u201cPharmaceutical<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":902107,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2084,2150],"tags":[14302,7103],"class_list":["post-902106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-africa","category-moves","tag-africa","tag-moves"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=902106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902106\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/902107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=902106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=902106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=902106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}