A critical AU Model Law aimed at harmonising medical products regulatory systems in Africa was endorsed by African Heads of State and Government at the January AU Summit 2016 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The model law will accelerate the regulation of safe, quality and affordable medical products and technologies in Benin.
The West Africa Medicines Regulatory Harmonization (MRH) programme was launched in 2015 in Accra, Ghana. Benin participated in the establishment of the joint MRH Project Steering Committee and formation of 7 Technical Working Groups (TWG’s). The TWG’s are tasked with developing technical guidelines of the MRH programme. In addition, a joint framework of collaboration between WAHO and WAEMU has been agreed upon.
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Benin endorsed the first AU Model Law on Medical Products Regulation at the AU Summit in 2016 with the aim to improve access to quality and safe drugs and to fight the circulation of fake medical products in the country
Benin is among the first 12 countries to have domesticated an adapted version of the African Union Model on Medical Products in 2017
