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In late 2005 my good friend and travel companion John Spence asked me to contribute to the Aardvark Safaris Newsletter.

Let me introduce myself. I was born in Zimbabwe and have worked in African tourism

According to USFDA, a combination product is one composed of any combination of a drug and device; biological product and device; drug and biological product

for fifteen years. For the past ten years I have been managing small lodges and camps in Zimbabwe, Tanzania and Namibia. Despite the standard constraints of time and money, I have travelled to and explo

; or drug, device, and biological product and fixed dose combination would include two or more combinations of drug.

Examples of combination products may in

red much of this incredible continent.

Whether you are a repeat visitor or planning your first safari, please believe that as a tourist you are making more of a difference to the well-being of Africa, i

lude drug-coated devices, drugs packaged with delivery devices in medical kits, and drugs and devices packaged separately but intended to be used together.

s peoples and its wildlife than any amount of charity. I am currently running a small lodge in the Namib Desert in Namibia and we measured under 2" of rain in 2005. Farming is just not viable any more an

here is enormous increase in the number of combination products entering the market in the recent years. Combination products have proven advantages but fixe

d there are quite simply no other opportunities in our area for employment except tourism.

In a typical African country between 40% and 60% of the total population is under 14 years old. The Namibian go

d dose combinations are still in the process of convincing regulatory authority on their advantages over the single ingredient formulations.

Combination pro

ernment education system is relatively well run and funded compared to others, and there must be thousands of school leavers entering the job market every year. One of the reasons that I love what I do a

ucts have become life saving products for the pharmaceutical companies who doesn’t have many innovative molecules in their product pipeline and have been inc

nd believe that we are making a difference is that tourism creates good jobs. Our philosophy is to hire for attitude, and then train for skills. I could bore you for hours with stories of young men and w

easingly used in the product life cycle management. Even the companies having product patents are trying to extend their product life cycle through the combi

men who began their tourism careers on the bottom rung, and have taken giant steps in a short time.

I employed a twenty year old girl last year to work in our laundry. She had been unemployed for three

nation products and maximize the revenues. But the companies involved in this practice are overlooking that they are burdening the patients both economically

years since leaving school in Swakopmund. Her father recently lost his job, and she now sends half her salary home every month. Unlike too many Western children she does this happily, acknowledging that

and physically. They need to rightly judge the benefits of the combination products and they have to even look at the risks involved when combining the produ

he has a debt to him for putting her through school. She speaks excellent English but had no skills or qualification whatsoever. Her peers trained her here at the lodge to operate the washing machines an

ts. Some of the combination products were well accepted by physicians while others suffered. Companies involved in development of combination products are fi

d various detergents. Next year we will move her to housekeeping for a spell, and I believe she has the makings of a wonderful waitress within three years. There is no real impediment to her managing a l

ding difficulty in defining their combination products and facing various challenges from selecting a combination to marketing it.

Following aspects would a

odge one day, provided she maintains her attitude and thirst for betterment. If she achieves this goal she will have the advantage of intimate working knowledge of three important departments under her c

dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

Which markets to tap where the combination products can do fairly well?
Which combination prod

arge.

Kitchen porters can, and do, end up as chefs. Maintenance assistants become mechanics. These skills are as much in demand in Africa as anywhere else. In Tanzania I had a ranger who had graduated f

cts are meaningful and rational?
Which therapeutic categories to select?
Which Combinations can address unmet needs of the patients?
Do combin

rom being a housekeeper, and another who had been initially hired as a driver. They were both trained internally at no cost to themselves. Today they make enough money to have built proper houses for the

tions increase the patient compliance?
What would be the developing cost?
How to tackle the risks encountered during combination product developmen

r families, and they send their kids to better schools than they went to. Regardless of nationality, none of us can aspire to more than that.

Tourism work has a dignity and a promise that farm labourers

t?

As combination products don't fit into the traditional categories of drugs, medical devices, or biological products, the USFDA is in the process of devel

, fishermen and miners can only dream about. Our staff are given uniforms, three nutritious meals a day, free transport to the nearest town on days off, and can join a medical scheme for which the compan

ping new procedures for reviewing their safety, efficacy and quality.

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust

pays half. They get treated with respect, and know that they are among the lucky few who have jobs at all. They take pride in delivering a hospitality that may not be what you would get at an expensive

y and representatives from various regulatory agencies are working out to design the regulatory requirements for manufacture and sale of combination products

restaurant in London, but is infinitely more warm and heartfelt.

When it's time for our guests leave the lodge, I always ask them if they're going to return to Africa on holiday again. It doesn't have t

.

As there is an increasing trend of the combination products companies manufacturing such products should be able to tackle the problems involved in the de

be back to the country I'm working in, or to the lodge I happen to be running at the time. Just to Africa, because we need them and their money to continue making a difference.

No disrespect to Bob Gel

elopment. They need to be wiser in analyzing the market trends and the regulatory requirements.

Companies that provide selfless information through particip

dof or Bono but tourism, not charity, is what we need here.

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tion in industry events and feedback to regulatory authorities would be able to face the challenges and will be successful in developing combination products

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