Latest CIRS research posters
So far 2024 has been a busy year conference wise for CIRS! CIRS staff have presented work and/or moderated sessions at several conferences including DIA Europe, RAPS Euro Convergence, [...]
Comparison of Three Regional Medicines Regulatory Harmonisation Initiatives in Africa
Background The African Medicines Regulatory Harmonisation (AMRH) Initiative was formed in 2009 and subsequently, three regional initiatives (East African Community Medicines Regulatory Harmonisation [MRH], Southern African Development Community [SADC]/ZaZiBoNa [...]
Impact of reliance on the regulatory performance of the South African Health Products Regulatory Authority
Introduction: The World Health Organization (WHO) advocates the use of reliance practices to enable national regulatory authorities (NRAs) to improve patients’ access to medicines. This study considered whether reliance review [...]
Evaluation of the Effectiveness and Efficiency of Ten Years’ Experience with the East Africa Community Joint Assessment
During the DIA Global Annual Meeting 2023, Nancy Yang-Ngum developed and presented a poster in which she shared the results, recommendations and conclusions about the topic "Evaluation of the [...]
Evaluation of the Regulatory Review Process of the FDA Ghana: Challenges and Opportunities for Improvement
During the DIA Global Annual Meeting 2023, Mercy Owusu-Asante developed and presented a poster in which she shared the results, recommendations and conclusions about the topic "Evaluation of the [...]
Evaluation of the impact of reliance on the regulatory performance in the South African Health Products Regulatory Authority
During the DIA Global Annual Meeting 2023, Lorraine Danks, Boitumelo Semete-Makokotlela, Sam Salek and Stuart Walker developed and presented a poster in which they shared the results, recommendations and [...]
A comparison of the Regional Medicines Regulatory Harmonisation Projects in East, West and Southern Africa.
During the DIA Global Annual Meeting 2023, Tariro Sithole, Nancy Ngum, Mercy Owusu-Asante, Stuart Walker and Sam Salek developed and presented a poster in which they shared the results, [...]
Evaluation of Risk‑Based Approaches to the Registration of Medicines: Current Status Among African Regulatory Authorities
Background: Despite the worldwide need for increased access to safe and effective medicines, there is a lack of innovative medicines in many low- to middle-income countries. On the African [...]
Regulatory performance of the East African Community joint assessment procedure: The way forward for regulatory systems strengthening
Background: Seven national medicines regulatory authorities in the East African Community (EAC) have embraced regulatory reliance, harmonization and work sharing through the EAC Medicines Regulatory Harmonization programme. Measuring the [...]
Assessment of the effectiveness and efficiency of the West Africa medicines regulatory harmonization initiative by the pharma industry
Background: Following the establishment of Economic Community of West African States Medicines Regulatory Harmonization (ECOWAS-MRH) initiative in 2017, it was considered timely to carry out an evaluation of the current [...]