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2023 Digital Therapeutics Alliance Inaugural Summit: DTx Industry Leaders Gather to Transform Global Healthcare

Held at the Washington D.C. Marriott at Metro Center June 7 – 9, 2023.The 3-day Summit programming will be facilitated by leaders from all facets of the DTx industry, including policymakers, manufacturers, payors, and other experts to guide innovation and equity in healthcare.

Arlington, VA, March 30, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — The Digital Therapeutics Alliance (DTA) is hosting its Inaugural Summit on June 7-9, 2023 at the Washington Marriott at Metro Center. Leaders from all facets of the digital therapeutics (DTx) ecosystem, including policymakers, clinicians, and payors, will join DTA members to discuss the challenges and opportunities of DTx integration into the healthcare system and identify optimized policy, reimbursement, and regulatory pathways to accelerate adoption.

The 3-day Summit programming will be facilitated by Andy Molnar, Chief Executive Officer of DTA, and feature keynote presentations, panel discussions, and interactive sessions that cover the advancement of DTx, the impact of healthcare policy, reimbursement and regulatory pathways, clinical evidence requirements, and patient access optimization.

DTA’s Chief Executive Officer, Andy Molnar states: “We are here to transform healthcare and deliver a new category of medicine to patients to improve their lives. The 2023 DTA Inaugural Summit brings together the leaders in healthcare innovation that are making these monumental changes. We are building viable frameworks with partners from Capitol Hill, the investment ecosystem, clinicians, health plans, patients, and caregivers.”

DTx products use evidence-based, clinically evaluated technologies to optimize clinical and health economic outcomes, deliver high quality therapies to underserved populations, and transform how patients understand, manage, and engage in their healthcare.

Leading into the Summit, US-focused DTA members and staff will convene in Washington D.C. to meet with congressional members and other influential parties to advocate for the Access to Prescription Digital Therapeutics Act (S. 723 and H.R. 1458).This bill seeks to create a new benefit category for digital therapeutics and ensure permanent coverage and reimbursement of DTx products by Medicare and Medicaid.

Everett Crosland, DTA board member and Chief Commercial Officer for Cognito Therapeutics, commented, “Given the rapidly evolving reimbursement environment, DTA’s 2023 Inaugural Summit offers the DTx industry an unprecedented opportunity to engage and advocate on the issues that matter most to our companies, patients, providers, and payor partners. I’m excited to speak about the emerging frameworks that are shaping our future.”

Event details and registration: 2023 DTA Inaugural Summit 

About DTA:

The Digital Therapeutics Alliance (DTA) is a global non-profit trade association of industry leaders and stakeholders with the mission of broadening the understanding, adoption, and integration of digital therapeutics into healthcare. DTA works to enable expanded access to high quality, evidence-based digital therapeutics for patients, clinicians, and payors to improve clinical and health economic outcomes. To learn more, please visit: www.dtxalliance.org and follow us on LinkedIn.

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African Leaders to Discuss Africa’s Resilient Growth during AFC’s 3rd Country, Stakeholder Symposium

Addis Ababa In its drive to reinforce commitment and partnership with stakeholders, the Africa Finance Corporation (AFC), the continent’s leading infrastructure solutions provider, will convene the 3rd edition of its Country and Stakeholder Symposium on the 4th of April 2023.

The event will bring together leaders of including the President of Zambia, Hakainde Hichilema’; Egyptian Finance Minister, Mohamed Maait; Ethiopian Sate Minister of Finance, Eyob Tekalign, and others, according to AFC.

The symposium, organized under the theme, “partnering for resilience and sustainable growth in turbulent times,” will convene industry experts from the government and the private sector in conversation on how African governments, investors and other stakeholders can partner with AFC to implement innovative solutions that deliver on their development agenda in uncertain times.

Attendees will get the opportunity to engage with industry experts on topics such as digital transformation in finance, innovation in infrastructure financing, responsible investing, and the impact of geopolitical events on infrastructure development.

“We look forward to hosting the third edition of our Country and Stakeholder Symposium, a platform for meaningful conversations around collaborating to build resilience and sustainable growth in Africa,” said Samaila Zubairu, President and CEO of AFC.

“We believe that by working together, we can address the challenges facing our continent and build a more prosperous Africa, shifting our focus from primary extraction of our abundant raw materials and mineral resources to value addition, job creation and industrialization.

AFC was established in 2007 to be the catalyst for private sector-led infrastructure investment across Africa.

Source: Ethiopian News Agency

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Home-Grown Economic Reform Exemplary for Other African Countries: ECA Acting Secretary

Addis Ababa Ethiopia’s Home-Grown Economic Reform could serve as an example for other African countries, and we are creating a platform for sharing these experiences among African countries, ECA Acting Executive Secretary Antonio Pedro said.

The Home-Grown Economic Reform is aimed at transforming Ethiopia from a largely agrarian low-income country to an industrialized lower-middle-income country by 2030.

The Acting Executive Secretary, Antonio Pedro told the Ethiopian news Agency that these experiences are very important to improve the capacity of all of Africa to respond to crises, and move forward with the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) enhancing the process of economic transformation of the continent.

Pedro stated that Ethiopia is successfully pursuing the reform “which we are confident that the government will be able to implement despite the challenges the whole of Africa has been facing due to the crisis.”

He also revealed that the commission has been working with the Ministry of Finance in areas like reforming the country’s tax system, modernizing and expanding tax base.

Ethiopia is among the countries that are undertaking reforms of the tax systems to increase the tax base and accelerate development, Pedro added.

“So, today Ethiopia is among the countries that are undertaking tax reforms to increase the tax base and accelerate development.”

The acting executive secretary further stressed that ECA also collaborates with the government of Ethiopia in areas that could lead to make the country a great power in agribusiness.

Equipping the country with important infrastructure and industrial parks will also contribute to the economic development of the nation that moves fast, he added.

Finance Minister, Ahmed Shide on his part had told ENA that inflation is affecting the country’s economy despite the resilience and growth witnessed in the country over the past few challenging years due to the war in the northern part of the nation and the Russia-Ukraine war.

In order to solve these and other problems, the minister said the government will continue to implement the Second Home-Grown Economic Reform and facilitate reconstruction efforts, narrow macro-economic gaps, and increase private sector participation in the economy.

The First Home-Grown Economic Reform introduced in 2018 has proved effective to deter internal and external economic challenges.

Therefore, the government is working on an additional economic reform plan that will help to control inflation, improve foreign currency availability and administration, enhance domestic resources mobilization, and increase local and foreign investment.

Source: Ethiopian News Agency

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Africure Pharmaceuticals Manufacturing Preparing to Inaugurate Production Soon

Addis Ababa The management of the Ethiopian Investment Commission (EIC), led by Commissioner Lelise Neme, visited of Africure Pharmaceuticals Manufacturing Ethiopia PLC and encouraged current project implementation progress.

Located inside Kilinto Industrial Park, Africure is a joint venture company owned by Ethiopian and foreign multinational investors ready to manufacture pharmaceutical products in Ethiopia.

With the vision of meeting national medicine demand and serving regional market, Africure pharmaceutical plant is preparing to inaugurate production soon.

EIC management reaffirmed to avail unceasing support and facilitation to the company.

Source: Ethiopian News Agency

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Russia Can Support Ethiopia to Elevate Industry, Grow Specialists Faster: Cosmonaut Sergey Kud-Sverchkov

Addis Ababa The Russian Cosmonaut Sergey Kud-Sverchkov shared today his experiences to Ethiopian students at the Addis Ababa Science and Technology University (AASTU), further pointing out that Russia can help Ethiopia to raise the industry faster.

Briefing the media after his presentation to students, the cosmonaut said Russia can provide some special services like geo-observation data for Ethiopia as it has already entered cooperation agreement in nuclear sciences with the university and will probably have cooperation in space engineering program.

Such kind of engineering is the basis for developing any country, he noted, adding that engineering specialists are those who can improve the whole industry.

“It does not matter if it is rocket science or nuclear science. If you need to develop, you have to pay attention to these areas of education.”

The astronaut advised that the Ethiopian government itself and the university could decide what the priorities for the country are, and we as partners can provide services for the country.

“We should first of all look at the needs. If we need to improve our rocket science, we pay attention to it and we grow specialists in this area.”

For Kud-Sverchkov, it is up to the government to decide what kind of specialists and scientists it needs. But obviously every country needs their own scientists to develop in their own way.

“Our task is to be partners in development. Probably it is really hard and expensive to create industry from the very beginning. As Russia, we can help raise the industry faster and grow specialists faster to catch up with the world.”

AASTU President, Dereje Engida said that sharing such experiences is pivotal to prepare Ethiopia for the future and prepare the young generation.

The university has 8 centers of excellence which have been designated to work on special areas such as mining extraction and exploration, sustainable energy, biotechnology and bio-process, nanotechnology, artificial intelligence, and robotics.

Space Science and Geospatial Institute (SSGI) Director General, Abdisa Yilma said “following the footsteps of Yuri Gagarin, and with the spirit of a great people like you (Sergey Kud-Sverchkov), we (Ethiopians) hope that brilliant and courageous astronauts will emerge in the near future.”

The cosmonaut Sergey Kud-Sverchkov had spent 185 days in orbit in 2020-2021, working as a flight engineer alongside his Russian and American colleagues.

Russia is a pioneer country in space exploration. It has contributed a lot to humanity by developing space technologies and skills that enable human beings to make the first steps in space.

Source: Ethiopian News Agency

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Nation Successfully Sustained Unity of Country by Resisting International Pressure: HPR Standing Committee Member

Addis Ababa Ethiopia has carried out diplomatic activities that enabled it to maintain the unity of the country by resisting international pressure during the past five years, Foreign Relations and Peace Affairs Standing Committee member of the House of People’s Representatives Dina Mufti said.

Dina has explained in detail the public diplomacy activities carried out in the past five years.

During the years, the nation undertook diplomatic activities that ensured the continuity of the sovereignty of the nation by withstanding international and the local problems.

Ethiopians all over the world stood for their country during those difficult times, he noted, adding that among the works carried out in the period included public diplomacy centered on the interests of the country.

Successful diplomatic activities have in particular been carried out to sustain the interests of the country by coping the challenges of COVD-19 epidemic, economic crisis, and the war in northern Ethiopia, Dina explained.

According to him, public diplomacy activities that protect the interests of the country at the international level have been strengthened through parliamentary diplomacy and people-to-people relations.

He recalled that the country was in trouble in different directions when the reform government came to power.

Even if there are limitations in responding to problems, it is a great success to be able to sustain the unity and sovereignty of the country by overcoming natural and man-made problems as well as international phenomena, he stated.

Dina further said that efforts are being made to strengthen the relationship with other sisterly Africa and the countries as well as peoples of the world through parliamentary diplomacy.

The Foreign Relations and Peace Affairs Standing Committee member finally called on Ethiopians living abroad, prominent persons, artists and others to strengthen their participation in public diplomacy in order to protect the country’s economic and political interests by promoting the objective realty in the country.

Source: Ethiopian News Agency

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CGIAR Researches Improving Livelihoods of Millions in Ethiopia: Agriculture State Minister

Addis Ababa The Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR)’s game-changing research solutions have been improving millions of livelihoods across Ethiopia, according to Agriculture State Minister Fikru Regassa.

Speaking at the launching of One CGIAR in Ethiopia (an integrated approach for the 11 international research centers Ethiopia hosts), the state minister said the Government of Ethiopia recognizes CGIAR’s role in transforming millions of households in the country.

As a host of CGIAR research centers here in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia has hugely benefited from agricultural researches undertaken by CGIAR, he added.

According to Fikru, CGIAR-related agricultural innovations between 1999 and 2019 alone have reached up to 79 percent of rural households in Ethiopia.

There have been at least 52 different innovations related to animal agriculture, crop germ plasm improvement, and natural resource management, it was learned.

Some 26 instances of policy influence have also been contributed by CGIAR’s research during this time.

Among these technologies, soil and water conservation innovations were adopted by 9.4 million households and about 4 million households use CGIAR-derived maize germ plasm.

The state minister, who said that the Government of Ethiopia is working to transform the country’s agriculture by 2030, has asked the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) to further boost its scientific contribution to the success of the government’s 10-year agriculture plan.

ILRI Director General’s Representative to Ethiopia and CGIAR Country Convener, Namukolo Covic said CGIAR will not only continue and enhance alignment of its projects with government priority areas but also engage in forward thinking to address future challenges.

The representative pointed out that Ethiopia’s successful wheat development strategy is a lesson for others.

She further said that “working with our national and regional partners, we will explore lessons we can learn from the successful wheat development efforts of Ethiopia for other commodities and also look forward to preempting challenges that may need to be addressed for long term sustainability.”

Recall that CGIAR had 11 international research centers in Ethiopia. In a bid to enhance synergies and avoid duplication of efforts and engage in assisting governments objectives in agriculture, CGIAR has transitioned to One CGIAR.

Source: Ethiopian News Agency