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Last Updated: July 27, 2026 TL;DR: Malawi imports more than 90% of the medicines it consumes and has no domestic sterile injectable capacity at all. The regulator is the Pharmacy and Medicines Regulatory Authority (PMRA), created by Act No. 9 of 2019, which replaced the Pharmacy, Medicines and Poisons Board on 1 October 2019. PMRA leans heavily on reliance: full assessment runs 360 days, while the WHO Collaborative Registration Procedure, the stringent-authority reliance rout

Last Updated: July 27, 2026 TL;DR: Sri Lanka is a market of roughly 23.2 million people where the state sector delivers about 95% of inpatient care through 1,209 government health institutions and 90,392 beds, and where India already supplies half of everything on the register. As at 23 July 2026, 3,291 of 6,577 valid NMRA registrations were Indian-made, including 700 of 1,255 injectable registrations. The regulator is the National Medicines Regulatory Authority (NMRA), const

Last Updated: July 26, 2026 TL;DR: Burkina Faso is a landlocked West African market of about 24.1 million people that imports more than 90% of the medicines it consumes and has no domestic sterile injectable capacity. India is already its second-largest source of packaged medicines. The regulator is the Agence Nationale de Régulation Pharmaceutique (ANRP), created in October 2018 and ISO 9001:2015 certified; it grants a five-year Autorisation de Mise sur le Marché under UEMOA

Last Updated: July 26, 2026 TL;DR: Mali is a landlocked Sahelian market of about 25.2 million people carrying one of the heaviest injectable-medicine burdens in the world, with effectively no domestic sterile manufacturing capacity to meet it. The regulator is the Direction de la Pharmacie et du Médicament (DPM) inside the Ministry of Health, not a standalone agency, and the Autorisation de Mise sur le Marché (AMM) it grants is valid for five years. Dossiers follow the UEMOA

Last Updated: July 25, 2026 TL;DR: Syria is the most changed pharmaceutical market in the Middle East. Since the transition of December 2024 the United States has terminated its Syria sanctions programme by Executive Order 14312 with effect from 1 July 2025, removed the Syrian Sanctions Regulations from the Code of Federal Regulations in August 2025 and repealed the Caesar Act outright on 18 December 2025; the European Union lifted all economic sanctions on 28 May 2025 and re

Last Updated: July 25, 2026 TL;DR: Niger is a Sahelian market of roughly 28 million people with one of the heaviest injectable-medicine burdens in the world and almost no domestic capacity to fill it. It is a WHO High Burden to High Impact malaria country — an estimated 7,982,516 cases and 35,381 deaths in 2023, about 3% of global malaria cases and 5.9% of global malaria deaths — and its own national guidelines make intravenous artesunate or artemether the first-line treatmen