# Agência Reguladora de Medicamentos e Tecnologias de Saúde (ARMED)

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## TL;DR

Angola's medicines regulator, set up in 2021 to take over from the health ministry's own medicines directorate. It licenses, checks and controls medicines and health technologies.

## Summary

Angola's Council of Ministers approved the creation of the Agência Reguladora de Medicamentos e Tecnologias de Saúde in 2021. The health minister said at the time that the Ministry's Direcção Nacional de Medicamentos e Equipamentos would be transformed into the agency, with all its assets and staff, and that this would align the sector with World Health Organization and African Union guidance. Its organic statute was approved by Presidential Decree 136/21 of 1 June 2021, and Joint Executive Decree 1/25 of 14 January 2025, from the ministries of finance and health, set the fees and charges for its services. Its website showed only a JavaScript application shell to a plain request in November 2026, so OnCo has not read its own account of its approval routes. The coordinates are an approximate city point for Luanda.

## Fields

- Kind: Institution
- Last checked: 2026-11-11
- Also known as: ARMED; Angolan Medicines and Health Technologies Regulatory Agency
- City: Luanda, AO
- Type: government
- Website: https://www.armed.gov.ao/

## Sources

- Ver Angola: health minister on the new medicines regulatory agency (2021): https://www.verangola.net/va/pt/042021/Saude/24808/Ag%C3%AAncia-Reguladora-de-Medicamentos-%C3%A9-um-%E2%80%9Cganho-importante%E2%80%9D-para-o-sector-admite-ministra-da-Sa%C3%BAde.htm
- Joint Executive Decree 1/25 on ARMED fees, citing its statute in Presidential Decree 136/21 (lex.ao): https://lex.ao/docs/ministerios-das-financas-e-da-saude/2025/decreto-executivo-conjunto-n-o-1-25-de-14-de-janeiro/

## Connected records

- institutions: [Ministério da Saúde, Angola](https://onco.cc/institutions/angola-ministry-of-health/)

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