The document establishes the National List of Essential Medicines and Other Health Products.
The document provides the 7th version of the essential medicines list and standard treatment guidelines for Zimbabwe.
The purpose of the law is the organization of pharmacy, whether for human or veterinary use.
This Act is to establish a Medicines Control Authority of Zimbabwe and to confer functions on such Authority in relation to the registration of medicines; to provide for the Zimbabwe Regional Medicines Control Laboratory and for its functions; to provide for the appointment of a Director-General of the Authority and for the keeping of a Medicines Register; to provide for certain prohibitions, controls and restrictions relating to medicines and other substances; and to provide for matters connected with or incidental to the foregoing.