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Table 1 Categorisation of medicines and vaccines in the Ugandan Essential Medicine List (MoH 2012)
Table 2 Number and percentage of essential medicines not registered with the NDA according to VEN classification and the level of use in the health system
Fig. 1 Countries of origin for medicines on the Ugandan National Drug Register, 2012. PIC/S countries: Germany, UK, Cyprus, South Africa, Belgium, France, Malaysia, Switzerland, Indonesia, Italy, Sweden, Canada, The Netherlands, Greece, Spain, USA, Portugal, Denmark, Hungary, Slovenia, Korea, Finland, and Japan. Non-PIC/S countries (importing < 4% of products into Uganda): Pakistan, Egypt, Jordan, Morocco, Turkey, Bangladesh, Iran, and UAE
Table 3 Local production of essential medicines in Uganda
Additional file 1. Resolution of differences between the Ugandan EML and NDR.
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