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. Swaziland has embraced and domesticated the AU Model Law and is already utilizing an adapted version.
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Swaziland 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
Swaziland is also among the first 12 countries to have domesticated an adapted version of the African Union Model on Medical Products in 2017
