A critical AU Model Law aimed at harmonizing medical products regulatory systems in Africa was endorsed by African Heads of State and Government at the January 2016 AU Summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The AU Model Law will contribute towards accelerate the regulation of safe, quality and affordable medical products and technologies in DR Congo.
Central Africa has embarked on a collaborative framework that will stipulate the activities, roles and responsibilities for implementing an MRH programme in the region. DR Congo is participating in a mapping exercise in 2016 that shall establish regulatory systems that will guide ECCAS and OCEAC Member States in setting up an MRH programme.
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DRC endorsed the first AU Model Law on Medical Products Regulations 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
DRC is among the first 12 countries to have domesticated an adapted version of the African Union Model on Medical Products in 2017
