Initiative to progress research on medicine utilization in Africa: formation of the Medicines Utilization Research in Africa group

Amos MasseleDepartment of Clinical Pharmacology, School of Medicine, University of Botswana, Gaborone, Botswana

Brian GodmanDepartment of Laboratory Medicine, Division of Clinical Pharmacology, Karolinska Institutet, Karolinska University Hospital Huddinge, SE-141 86, Stockholm, Sweden;Strathclyde Institute of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UKCorrespondence[email protected]

Matthias AdorkaSchool of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Namibia, Windhoek, Namibia

Joseph FadareDepartments of Pharmacology/Medicine, Ekiti State University/Ekiti State University Teaching Hospital, Ado-Ekiti, Nigeria

Andy GrayDivision of Pharmacology, Discipline of Pharmaceutical Sciences, School of Health Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, PBag 7 Congella 4013, South Africa

Martie LubbeMedicine Usage in South Africa (MUSA), Faculty of Health Sciences, School of Pharmacy, North-West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa

Olayinka OgunleyeDepartment of Medicine, Clinical Pharmacology Unit, Lagos State University College of Medicine and Teaching Hospital, Ikeja, Lagos, Nigeria

Ilse TruterDrug Utilization Research Unit (DURU), Department of Pharmacy, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, Port Elizabeth 6031, South Africa

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Acknowledgements

Apart from the co-authors, other personnel present in Port Elizabeth included Joyce Kgatlwane (Botswana); Brent Knoesen, Theunis Kotze, Rianda Joubert, Johanita Burger, Ian Wiseman (South Africa); Ester Naikaku (Namibia); Ogo Mbachu (Swaziland); Jaran Eriksen (Sweden).

MURIA Group Introductory meeting – Port Elizabeth, South Africa 27–28 January 2015.

Financial & competing interests disclosure.

This meeting was in part supported by VR-Link grant from Swedish Research Council (VR-Link 2013-6710) to Amos Y Massele and Lars L Gustafsson. The authors have no relevant affiliations or financial involvement with any organization or entity with a financial interest in or financial conflict with the subject matter or materials discussed in the manuscript. This includes employment, consultancies, honoraria, stock ownership or options, expert testimony, grants or patents received or pending, or royalties.

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