Building Africa's frontline readiness: Legal considerations for healthtech
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Event description
Africa's healthtech sector is rising to the challenge of COVID-19 and needs enabling, rights-based legal frameworks to support its growth.
About this event
June 23rd, 2020
11am GMT/ 12 noon West Africa Time / 13:00 Southern African Time / 14:00 East African Time
The imminent rolling out of test, track, trace mobile phone applications as a means of managing the COVID-19 pandemic could provide a long-lasting tool to manage future outbreaks. However, they and other healthtech innovations come with particular challenges on a continent with low smartphone usage, expensive data, poor power supply and lack of enabling regulatory and policy environments.
- What are the existing frameworks for healthtech and medtech registration and innovation on the continent and where is good practice already in evidence?
- How can the medtech and healthtech sectors engage with policymakers?
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