El Salvador

El Salvador has approved a new law that will establish a new regulatory body responsible for authorizing medicines and setting prices.

El Salvador has approved a law that will establish a new regulatory body responsible for authorizing medicines and setting prices.

Medicines regulators from Mexico, Colombia and Cuba have pledged to create a new agency for medicines and medical devices of Latin America and the Caribbean.

While the US and EU regulators seem less than keen on the data package offered to date on COVID-19 Vaccine AstraZeneca, Latin American countries are moving quickly to follow the UK in backing the cost-effective and more-easily deliverable option.

Public health experts tell committee that much work lies ahead in strengthening the regulatory systems of low-and middle-income countries, and recommend ways to bolster these systems and improve the quality of imports.