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Another Step Forward for African Medicines Agency

 
• By Ian Schofield

Rwanda’s health minister says the new body will play a key role in promoting cooperation and mutual recognition of regulatory decisions by individual agencies across the continent.

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Africa's new medicines agency will have a coordination and harmonization role • Source: Shutterstock

The creation of the African Medicines Agency drew a step nearer after the African Union signed a “host country” agreement with the government of Rwanda, which this week held a two-day conference in the capital Kigali to help speed the process up.

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