Six themes that follow medicine safety end to end
Medication-related harm is not caused by a single failure. These themes reflect the areas where collaboration and implementation can have the greatest impact on patient protection.
1Patient-Centred Medicines Regulation
Advancing regulatory approaches that strengthen patient protection and public trust.
How can medicines regulation better protect patients and strengthen public trust?
2Medicines Safety and Quality
Strengthening systems that ensure medicines remain safe, effective and trusted throughout their lifecycle.
How can Africa strengthen medicines safety systems to keep medicines safe, effective and trusted throughout the lifecycle?
3Safe and Rational Use of Medicines
Reducing medication-related harm through safer prescribing, dispensing and medicine use.
How can healthcare systems reduce medication-related harm through safer, more patient-centred use of medicines?
4Pharmacovigilance and Post-Market Surveillance
Improving detection, reporting and response to medicines safety concerns across the continent.
How can Africa strengthen the detection, reporting and response to medicines safety risks?
5Patients, Communities and Safety Intelligence
Positioning patients and communities as active contributors to medicines safety systems.
How can patients and communities become active contributors to medicines safety and improvement efforts?
6Innovation, Evidence and Coordinated Action
Leveraging innovation, research and collaboration to accelerate patient safety improvements.
How can innovation, evidence and collaboration accelerate safer, more responsive medicines safety systems across Africa?
Five lenses across every theme
These lenses reflect the Summit's commitment to patient-centred, prevention-focused and reality-driven approaches to improving medicines safety across Africa.
Closing the Patient Safety Reality Gap
Addressing blind spots in reporting, surveillance and measurement to improve visibility of medication-related harm.
Frontline and Clinical Reality
Examining how patient safety is experienced and managed in day-to-day clinical practice, where care is delivered.
Elevating Patient and Community Voices
Integrating lived experience as a core source of safety intelligence across regulation and healthcare delivery.
Data, Digital Systems, and AI
Strengthening reporting and risk detection with technology — while guarding against data that misses frontline realities.
Moving from Reaction to Prevention
Shifting medicines safety systems towards earlier detection, stronger prevention and learning-oriented design.
From themes to coordinated action
Together, we can move from fragmented efforts to coordinated action — and from coordinated action to measurable impact.