# Pharmacy Board of Sierra Leone (PBSL)

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## TL;DR

Sierra Leone's medicines regulator, within the Ministry of Health. It registers medicines, licenses pharmacies and pharmacists, approves clinical trials and collects reports of side effects.

## Summary

NIH ClinRegs (Sierra Leone profile) says the Pharmacy Board was established by Act of Parliament in 1988 and re-established by the Pharmacy and Drugs Act 2001 to regulate medicines, medical devices, cosmetics, food supplements and herbal products and the practice of pharmacy, operating within the Ministry of Health; it is the authority for clinical trial approval, oversight and inspection, with an Expert Committee on Pharmacovigilance and Clinical Trials and a Pharmacovigilance and Clinical Trials department. ClinRegs gives its address as the Central Medical Stores compound, New England Ville, Freetown. Sierra Leone signed the African Medicines Agency treaty on 10 February 2020 and ratified it on 28 May 2021; WHO's August 2026 list of regulators at maturity level 3 or 4 does not include it. The coordinates are an approximate Freetown city point.

## Fields

- Kind: Institution
- Last checked: 2026-11-11
- Also known as: PBSL; Pharmacy Board, Sierra Leone
- City: Freetown, SL
- Type: government
- Website: https://pharmacyboard.gov.sl/

## Sources

- NIH ClinRegs: Sierra Leone: https://clinregs.niaid.nih.gov/country/sierra-leone
- Pharmacy Board of Sierra Leone: https://pharmacyboard.gov.sl/
- African Union: signatures and ratifications of the African Medicines Agency treaty (19 September 2023, PDF): https://au.int/sites/default/files/treaties/36892-sl-TREATY_FOR_THE_ESTABLISHMENT_OF_THE_AFRICAN_MEDICINES_AGENCY.pdf

## Connected records

- institutions: [Connaught Hospital, Freetown](https://onco.cc/institutions/connaught-hospital-freetown/)

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