Event location
Seminars will take place at Seminar Room 218, FHH (Frederik Holsts hus), 12:15-13:30.
Zoom link for those wishing to attend online.
Abstract
From the 1990s to the early 2000s, Tanzania's socio-political and market economy sphere changed permanently. The socialist ideals that included state-sponsored health care services provision and drug supplies were being replaced by a market-based system whereby the monopoly of who provided health care, including pharmaceutical products and services, was being replaced by mainly the private sector. The monopoly of antibiotics supply once in the hands of the government parastatals was disappearing. However, there was one problem: the required regulations and infrastructures to ensure these vital goods' ethical supply and distribution were still evolving. The capacity to implement the (un)available policies was also wanting. This presentation will provide a social history of pharmaceutical circulations amidst tightening drug regulations in Tanzania. It will focus on unpacking antibiotics importation and distribution practices while mirroring pharmaceutical regulation implementation challenges of the late 1990s and onwards. I will also attempt to shed some light on what these developments mean to the AMR control efforts.
Bio
Dr Peter Mangesho holds a MA in Medical Sociology and Anthropology from the University of Dar es Salaam and a PhD in Social Anthropology from the University of Cape Town. He has over 17 years of experience in Health research. He has participated in different projects as a PI and Co-PI on HIV/AIDS, TB, Malaria, Ebola, and Covid-19, Health Systems improvements and clinical trials participation experiences, as well as research on the histories of medical research institutes. Mangesho's recent research has been on the social, economic and cultural aspects of antimicrobial resistance and zoonoses in at-risk communities by applying social anthropological tools within a One Health framework. Current research is in the Social History of Antimicrobial Formal and informal circulations with a focus on regulation development in Tanzania, aiming at addressing antimicrobial resistance. The latter is part of the FAR project.