[Pharm-policy] SA permits importation of generic fluconazole

[James Love]

>From Business Day.. looks like big TAC victory

October 23, 2000
http://www.bday.co.za/bday/content/direct/0,3523,725749-6078-0,00.html
               Council permits importation of generic
                drug

THE Medicines Control Council has given permission for the importation
of a generic equivalent of the drug fluconazole, used for certain AIDS
infections, despite its opposition to the importation of a similar
generic equivalent by AIDS activists. 

The registration it has issued is in terms of the law and enables the
council to allow the use, under certain circumstances, of a drug that
has not been registered. It does not require on-site inspections and can
be granted with certification that the drugs works the way it should
within the human body. 

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