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Africa has considerable advantages and opportunities for trialling investigational medicinal products that, if pharma companies can correctly harness, will turn the continent into a superpower for clinicaltrials. Clinicaltrials data for Africa Globally, research has found that 62.2% being African American, 3.4%
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