Membership is open to local, regional, national or international organisations that are committed to ensuring African patients have timely access to safe and quality medicines and health devices, and believe that AMA is the most appropriate Pan-African organisation to help achieve this.

Eligible organisations include:

  • Patient and community health related organisations.

  • Non-governmental and other civil society organisations engaged in African health development.

  • African health professional associations like those representing doctors, nurses, community health workers and pharmacists.

  • African academic and research bodies.

  • Non-State actors in official relationship with the WHO and their African Members or chapters.

  • Public-private partnerships, including medicines and health devices.

  • African and international trade associations.

How To Join

If your organisation wishes to join the Alliance you should return a completed Application Form: along with information about your organization (including its background, activities, aims and objectives etc.) to amata@iapo.org.uk. Joining organisations will be required to agree to the Terms of Reference and the Multi-stakeholder Call for AU Heads of State to Ratify the AMA Treaty (February 2021).

Download The Membership Application

All Members will be expected to undertake the following commitments to develop the Alliance and support launch activities:

  • Participate in joint advocacy actions (ie. events, media briefings, statements.)

  • Participate in joint communication activities (ie. press releases, social media campaigns, op-eds.)

  • Share any policy papers, case studies, fact- sheets, information guides, communication tools or advocacy kits developed in the area of regulatory harmonisation, convergence and reliance that could be useful to carry out AMATA’s activities.

In addition, Members can if relevant and on an ad-hoc basis:

  • Share information and progress regarding the ratification process and leverage the unique resources, access points, and insights that each organisation possesses.

  • Provide arguments and disseminate information about the merits of regulatory harmonisation to their audiences and their media contacts.

  • Share knowledge and experience from regulatory convergence through interviews, emails, or informal calls.