Pharmaceutical Industry Blog

Last Updated: August 23, 2026 TL;DR: The Dominican Republic regulates medicines through DIGEMAPS (Dirección General de Medicamentos, Alimentos y Productos Sanitarios), part of the Ministerio de Salud Pública, under the framework of Decree 246-06; every product requires a Sanitary Register valid for five years, and since 2015 a simplified registration pathway for qualifying products has cut typical processing time to roughly four months. Unlike several markets in this series,

Last Updated: August 23, 2026 TL;DR: Jordan regulates medicines through the Jordan Food and Drug Administration (JFDA), established in 2003 under the Ministry of Health, which registers pharmaceutical products in CTD format, licenses importers, manufacturers and wholesalers, and has applied for PIC/S membership (application filed January 2021, rapporteurs appointed 2022). Public-sector pharmaceutical purchasing runs primarily through the Joint Procurement Department (JPD, for

Last Updated: August 23, 2026 TL;DR: Haiti regulates medicines through the Direction de la Pharmacie, du Médicament et de la Médecine Traditionnelle (DPM/MT), part of the Ministère de la Santé Publique et de la Population (MSPP), which requires sanitary registration for every imported pharmaceutical product — a dossier covering clinical, toxicological and manufacturing-certificate documentation from the country of origin, plus physical product samples — alongside a separate i

Last Updated: August 23, 2026 TL;DR: South Sudan regulates medicines through the South Sudan Drug and Food Control Authority (DFCA), established under the Drug and Food Control Authority Act No. 37 of 2012 within the Ministry of Health, which registers drugs, medical devices, cosmetics and foods and issues the import/export licenses every consignment needs; the 2022 Pharmaceutical Policy and Strategy, developed with WHO, is the current framework guiding sector governance. Sou

Last Updated: August 23, 2026 TL;DR: Tunisia regulates medicines through ANMPS (Agence Nationale des Médicaments et des Produits de Santé), the more autonomous authority created in 2023 to take over the historic role of the Direction de la Pharmacie et du Médicament (DPM), with registration running on the CTD format and moving toward mandatory eCTD submission from 2026. Despite a genuine domestic manufacturing base led by companies such as UNIMED and SIPHAT, Tunisia still imp

Last Updated: August 23, 2026 TL;DR: Farbe Firma Pvt Ltd, a WHO-GMP certified sterile injectable manufacturer in Gujarat, India, is positioned to serve Bolivia's pharmaceutical market as demand grows for quality-assured injectables. Bolivia's national regulator, AGEMED (Agencia Estatal de Medicamentos y Tecnologías en Salud), created under the Ministerio de Salud y Deportes by Supreme Decree No. 2905 in 2016, issues the Registro Sanitario required for any medicine sold in the