Pharmacovigilance and Surveillance (ACC). The African Collaborating Centre for Pharmacovigilance and Surveillance is a company registered in Ghana that is limited by guarantee. It is also a registered non-governmental organization by the Department of Social Welfare Government  which is a statutory Agency under the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection (MoGCSP) in Ghana.

ACC – from its origins as Sante-Afrique Ltd through its few years as Uppsala Monitoring Centre – Africa (UMC-A) and also co-hosting (with the University of Ghana Medical School) the WHO Collaborating Centre for Advocacy and Training in Pharmacovigilance from 2009 to 2017 has been leaders in pharmacovigilance and vaccine pharmacoviligannce from June 2009 till date in Ghana and across Africa. It has been involved in pharmacovigilance and vaccine pharmacovigilance research, service delivery, teaching and capacity building.

ACC was incorporated to provide a one-stop location for all things pharmacovigilance in Africa. Its vision is an Africa where patients are safe and where there is continuous, dynamic, world-class safety monitoring of all medical products including medicines, herbal remedies, vaccines and medical devices and all other health commodities. This is achieved through training, advocacy, appropriate collaborations, capacity building and research.

Pharmacovigilance in Africa has come a long way from the missing quarter century
(1968-1992) where there was absolutely no African country in full membership of the WHO Programme for International Drug Monitoring (PIDM), through the lean years (1999-2005) to the current state where there are 37 African members of the PIDM and where discussions of pharmacovigilance has moved from data collection to the tools needed for data analysis and periodic benefit-risk evaluation.

ACC is the voice of pharmacovigilance in Africa and welcomes collaborations and partnerships of all stakeholders in pharmacovigilance in Africa. When it comes to pharmacovigilance in Africa, the organisation to contact for training, capacity building, tools, methods, research, advocacy, country support and communication is the African Collaborating Centre for Pharmacovigilance (ACC), Accra, Ghana. ACC is in Africa and for Africa but will always work and collaborate with the global community since pharmacovigilance is a global science and requires international collaboration at all levels.
 

Sante-Afrique International Limited (SAIL)
SAIL is a Ghanaian pharmacovigilance, IT and data management group established in June 2009 to work with the Uppsala Monitoring Centre to provide focused support towards pharmacovigilance in Africa. The SAIL/UMC partnership led to the establishment of national pharmacovigilance centres in several African countries. SAIL has expertise in data management and IT and provides consulting services to governments, organisations and individuals.