"Just as the Kingdom of Morocco supported the creation of the African Medicines Agency, and continues to back the WHO, CDC Africa and the African Union in their efforts to promote equitable access to quality, safe and effective medicines, we will give our full support to the issue of strengthening pharmacovigilance on our Continent," Ait Taleb said at the opening of the meeting of members of the WHO International Drug Monitoring Program (IDMP) and their partners in Africa, expressing his confidence that achieving this goal will help improve the way health systems can face the health challenges of the future.

Moreover, the Kingdom of Morocco has never spared and will not spare any effort to contribute to the preservation and strengthening of health resilience, security and sovereignty at the continental level, especially in the framework of South-South cooperation, he said, recalling that HM King Mohammed VI has always stressed, through His actions and speeches, the need to make the health and welfare of the African citizen national priorities and to include them in any South-South cooperation project that aims to be efficient and to promote rapprochement and solidarity between peoples.

The Minister was indeed pleased that the IDMP now has 49 African countries among its members, including 5 associate members, and the organization of this conference on African soil, in the presence of experts from Africa, more than 150 in total, with a view to building stronger bridges of collaboration and developing strategies and innovative tools to strengthen pharmacovigilance systems in the Continent.

He said he was convinced that with the skills gathered and with the support of the partners present, there are all the know-how and capacity needed to strengthen regional and continental pharmacovigilance systems, imagining future options that will benefit all African nations and contribute to the general welfare.