Medicines Control Authority of Zimbabwe

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The Authority wishes to notify stakeholders of the addition of several new methods of submitting Adverse Drug Reaction (ADR) reports, Serious Read More
Protecting Your Rights

Medicines Control Authority of Zimbabwe is responsible for protecting public and animal health by ensuring that accessible medicines and allied substances and medical devices are safe, effective and of good quality through enforcement of adherence to standards by manufacturers and distributors Read More
MCAZ Chemistry

The Chemistry Laboratory is capable of performing comprehensive analytical work on a wide range of medicinal substance, oral and injectable contraceptives using pharmacopoeial and validated in-house methods. Read More
Registration of Medicines

The Medicines and Allied Substances Control Act (MASCA)[15:03] and the Medicines and Allied Substances Control Regulations (MASCR) SI 150 of 1991 requires that all medicines be registered, after scientific scrutiny of quality, safety and efficacy data, before they are allowed to be used on the Zimbabwean public and/or animals. Read More
MCAZ Medical Devices

Medical devices unit carries out quality control testing of condoms and gloves in line with international standards. Physical tests are carried out on the medical devices as well as checks for poor workmanship. Read More

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Draft Medicines and Allied Substances Control (Blood and Blood Components) Regulations

26 June 2020

The draft Blood and Blood Components Regulations are now available Please note that this is a DRAFT that has been uploaded to obtain comments from stakeholders before the regulations are...

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Medical Product Alert ; Falsified medical products, including in vitro diagnostics, that claim to prevent, detect, treat or cure COVID-19

06 April 2020

This Medical Product Alert warns consumers, healthcare professionals, and health authorities against a growing number of falsified medical products that claim to prevent, detect, treat orcure COVID-19. Medical...

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Draft SADC Variations Guidelines

20 March 2020

Draft SADC Variations Guidelines are now available Click the following links to download the guidelines and the comments sheet Draft SADC Variations Guidelines Draft SADC Variations Guidelines Comments Sheet

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Code of Ethics

22 August 2019

In pursuit of promoting high ethical standards, the Authority has formulated a Code of Ethics for its employees and members of the Authority .The Authority believes that high ethical...

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SADC Guideline on Product Information and Labeling

10 July 2019

Southern African Development Community (SADC), as a region has harmonized medicines registration guidelines in the common technical document (CTD) format that were approved in January 2015. Nevertheless, the harmonization...

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Medicines Information Bulletin - 2018

02 February 2018

Increased Reporting from the Targeted Spontaneous Reporting (TSR) Programme Click here to download the 2018 Drug Information Bulletin

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Quality Policy Statement

06 July 2018

The Quality Policy of the Medicines Control Authority of Zimbabwe (MCAZ) is to ensure the provision of accurate and timeous services, continuously meet requirements of our customers and guarantee patient...

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Medicines Information Bulletin - 2019

20 December 2019

Inside this issue: E-Reporting Tools Safety Notifications for Fluoroquinolones and Quinolones Antibiotics Notification of a potential risk of non-melanoma skin cancer (basal cell carcinoma, squamous cell carcinoma) in patients treated...

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