Africa Pharmacovigilance Dashboard

Mastercard Foundation and Africa CDC launched the Saving Lives and Livelihoods initiative in June 2021. This historic, $1.5 billion collaboration, which ended in December 2025, supported African Union member states to increase delivery and safety of COVID19 and routine vaccinations. To support this effort, Akros Research, AMREF, UNICEF, Infectious Disease Institute (IDI), African Society for Laboratory Medicine (ASLM), IFRC and UNICEF all worked directly with government counterparts across 29 African Union Member States to support different aspects of the programme between 2021 and 2025.

The Member States supported had varying levels of pharmacovigilance maturity, which can be described in many ways. Akros research, through the Saving Lives and Livelihoods Program, has developed a dashboard to informally visualize some of these indicators of maturity -- such as the tenure in the WHO Programme on International Drug Monitoring and the number of pharmacovigilance publications produced per country. The goal of the dashboard is to provide a way to better articulate the wide range of systems maturity levels on the continent.

Saving Lives and Livelihoods partners: