The Kenya Essential Medicines List 2023 builds on past efforts of reviewing the Kenya Essential Medicines List and ensures that medicines required at all the healthcare levels are included to guide efforts to improve access, in line with achieving Universal Health Coverage.
Specifications for essential diagnostic supplies.
Specifications for essential medicines supplies.
The objective of the law is to establish an institutional framework for regulating the pharmaceutical sector to ensure market approval and use of pharmaceutical products that are accessible, safe, efficient, and of appropriate quality (art.2). It notably establishes the Authority for pharmaceutical regulation (Autorité Ivoirienne de Regulation Pharmaceutique - AIRP) and addresses its mandates (chapter 1).
This Act makes provisions for the establishment of the Kenya Medical Supplies Authority and for connected purposes.
The purpose of this Act is to make better provision for the control of the profession of pharmacy and the trade in drugs and poisons.