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About AAMPS
Commonwealth Mandate
One of the major constraints identified at the Medicinal Plants Forum for Commonwealth Africa, an international conference held in Cape Town in 2000, was the lack of suitable technical specifications and quality control standards for African medicinal plants and herbal medicines.
The lack of such standards was considered to be a major barrier to regional and international trade and an important reason why traditional medicine has not been widely integrated into African primary health care.
Currently, despite the fact that more than 80% of Africans rely on plant based medicine, governments in only a handful of African countries give official recognition and support to this important sector.
The Centurion Declaration
A total of 28 experts on African herbal medicines from 17 different countries gathered at the Centurion Lake Hotel in the Republic of South Africa from May 13th to 15th 2005, to review the problems and prospects of developing international trading and quality control standards for Africa’s most important medicinal plants.
In a historic decision, delegates at the meeting signed the Centurion Declaration, pledging Africa-wide support for the establishment of an association dedicated exclusively to the preparation of such standards and the development of an African Herbal Pharmacopoeia.
The organisation, known as AAMPS – Association for African Medicinal Plants Standards, has its headquarters in Mauritius.
Membership – whilst initially drawn from the signatories of the Centurion Declaration – now embraces many others dedicated to similar goals.
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Signatories to the Centurion Declaration
Professor Berhanu Abegaz
University of Botswana, Botswana
Professor Marian Addy*
University of Ghana, Ghana
Ms Ngozi Aligwekwe
Biodiversity Conservation Development Programme, Nigeria
Mr Victor Attafua*
Vicdoris Pharmaceuticals, Ghana
Mr Thomas Brendler*
PlantaPhile, Germany
Mr Simon Byanyuma
Tabeco International, Tanzania
Mr Tom Chapman
Essential Nutrition, United Kingdom
Professor Ermias Dagne*
Ariti Herbal Products, Ethiopia
Professor Drissa Diallo
Department of Traditional Medicine, Mali
Mr Pierre Du Plessis
CRIAA SA-DC, Namibia
Professor Kobus Eloff*
University of Pretoria, Republic of South Africa
Dr Mohamed H. Farah
WHO Drug Monitoring Centre, Sweden
Mr Ulrich Feiter*
Parceval Pharmaceuticals, Republic of South Africa
Dr Nigel Gericke
Phyto Nova (Pty) Ltd, Republic of South Africa
Dr Jack Githae
School of Alternative Medicine and Technology, Kenya
Professor Ameenah Gurib-Fakim*
University of Mauritius, Mauritius
Professor Peter Houghton
King’s College London, United Kingdom
Mr Lawrance Denzil Phillips*
Denzil Phillips International Ltd, United Kingdom
Professor Philippe Rasoanaivo
Institut Malgache de Recherche Applique, Madagascar
Dr Diane Robertson
Wholistic Herb Association, Jamaica
Dr Archibald A. Sittie
Council for Scientific Research into Plant Medicine, Ghana
Dr Elzabe Stoffberg
Natura Laboratory, Republic of South Africa
Professor Gerry Swan
University of Pretoria, Republic of South Africa
Dr Gilbertha St Rose
Caribbean Herb Business Association, St Lucia
Dr Roy Van Brummelen
Biomox Pharmaceuticals, Republic of South Africa
Professor Ben-Erik Van Wyk*
University of Johannesburg, Republic of South Africa
Professor Arnold J. Vlietinck
Universiteit van Antwerpen, Belgium
Professor Charles Wambebe
International Biomedical Research in Africa, Nigeria
Ms Anke Weisheit
Mbarara University, Uganda
* Founding Board Members of AAMPS Ltd.
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