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Somali Parliament Passes Medicines Bill to Regulate Pharmaceuticals Nationwide

Somalia’s Parliament Passes Medicine Bill to Tackle Counterfeit Drugs; Lawmakers Weigh Tobacco Control Pact MOGADISHU — Somalia’s lower house of parliament on Saturday approved the Medicine Bill, a landmark piece of health legislation aimed at tightening oversight of pharmaceuticals after years of weak regulation and widespread concerns over counterfeit and substandard drugs. The House of the People passed the bill during the 25th meeting of its seventh session, with 141 lawmakers voting in favor, one abstention and no…

Madagascar: khat and Diego-Suarez

In Madagascar, no laws regulates cultivation, sale or consumption: neither prohibited nor permitted, consumption of khat is tolerated. For the World Well being Group (WHO), this plant is without doubt one of the medication. Khat was launched within the early twentieth century in Diego-Suarez, the capital of the northern a part of the island, by Yemeni, Somali and Comorian emigrants who had been recruited to fulfill the labor wants of French settlers. The Diego-Suarez area is in the present day the primary khat-producing…