Health Legislation

This Ministerial Decree regulates information and advertising of medicines and other health products.

This document provides guidelines on the supply of essential medicines in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

This Ministerial decree regulates the trade of pharmaceutical products in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

This Regulation is to determine the fee payable for registration and license of food, medicine, health professional and health institutions.

This Act gives effect to Article 227 of the Constitution; provides procedures for efficient public procurement and for assets disposal by public entities; and for connected purposes.

This document establishes the National List of Essential Medicines for Paediatrics to enable the availability, accessibility and affordability of quality and safe health products and ensure their rational use.

This document establishes the National Essential Medicine List for Adults to enable the availability, accessibility and affordability of quality and safe health products and ensure their rational use.

The document provides the 7th version of the essential medicines list and standard treatment guidelines for Zimbabwe.

This regulation is issued to implement the Food Medicine and Health Care Administration and Control Proclamation No 661/2009. and covers among other aspects of food safety and quality which includes manufacturing, storage and transportation among other aspects; sale of alcohol; medicine administration and control which includes manufacturing, registration, storage, transportation, importation ad clinical trials among others; traditional and complementary medicine administration and control; post-marketing surveillance; control of tobacco products and places prohibited for smoking among other aspects.  

The Act regulates the quality and safety of medicines and related products and connected matters.

This Act promotes and protects the health and safety of the general public through safeguarding, maintaining and enforcing the highest standards in the practice of pharmacy.

The decree creates a multi-sectoral committee to combat counterfeiting and the illicit sale of medicines and other pharmaceutical products, reporting to Niger's Minister of Public Health.

These Regulations govern the issuance of licenses for the importation, exportation, manufacture, distribution, and retail of drugs, etc.

The executive Decree No 13-155 of 4 Joumada Ethania 1434 amends the Executive Decree No 96-68 of 7 Ramadhan 1416 corresponding to 27 January 1996 on the creation, missions, organization and operation of the Inspectorate-General of the Ministry of Health and Population. This decree was published in the Official Journal of 25 April 2013 (page 27).

This Act provides for the registration, regulation of the sale, distribution, importation, exportation, manufacture and dispensing of medicines and related substances, and matters incidental thereto.

This decree governs the organisation of the Ministry of Public Health and addresses among other things, the missions of the ministry (art. 1) and its structure (general structure is fleshed out under article 2).

This Act provides for the making, scrutiny, publication and operation of statutory instruments and for matters connected therewith.

This Act makes provisions for the establishment of the Kenya Medical Supplies Authority and for connected purposes.

The decree establishes a Committee of Experts in charge of technical evaluation, whose mission is to carry out the technical evaluation of applications for registration of pharmaceutical products for human use. It also gives an opinion on the quality, safety and efficacy of pharmaceutical products for human use submitted for registration.

The decree creates the Commission Nationale du Médicament (CNM) for human use, whose mission is to validate the work of the Expert Committee responsible for the technical evaluation of applications for marketing authorization for pharmaceutical products for human use. It also gives a final opinion on marketing authorization applications; applications for renewal, extension of variation and transfer of marketing authorization; temporary suspension of marketing authorization; and proposals for definitive withdrawal of marketing authorization.