# Ministry of Health and Human Services, Federal Republic of Somalia

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## TL;DR

Somalia's health ministry, which leads national cancer control. It says it is writing the country's first national cancer control plan for 2026 to 2030 and setting up a national cancer registry.

## Summary

The Federal Ministry of Health is a full member of UICC. Its UICC profile, updated in July 2026, describes it as the national lead agency for cancer control through a National Cancer Control Program, developing the first National Cancer Control Plan (2026 to 2030), establishing the national cancer registry, coordinating partnerships with WHO, IAEA and UICC, training oncologists, pathologists and radiotherapy professionals, and promoting early screening for breast, cervical and colorectal cancer. The Ministry's own page on medicines regulation says that Somalia does not yet have a functioning National Medicines Regulatory Authority: a bill was endorsed by the cabinet in 2019, but product evaluation and registration, import control, inspection and pharmacovigilance are not carried out. The coordinates are an approximate city point for Mogadishu.

## Fields

- Kind: Institution
- Last checked: 2026-11-11
- Also known as: Federal Ministry of Health and Human Services; Ministry of Health, Somalia; Wasaaradda Caafimaadka
- City: Mogadishu, SO
- Type: government
- Website: https://moh.gov.so/en/

## Sources

- UICC member profile: Ministry of Health, Somalia: https://www.uicc.org/membership/ministry-health-somalia
- Ministry of Health: National Medicine Regulatory Authority: https://moh.gov.so/en/nmra/

## Connected records

- cancers: [Breast cancer (all types)](https://onco.cc/cancers/breast-cancer/), [Cervical cancer](https://onco.cc/cancers/cervical/)
- institutions: [International Atomic Energy Agency: Rays of Hope](https://onco.cc/institutions/iaea/), [Oasis Cancer Hospital](https://onco.cc/institutions/oasis-cancer-hospital-mogadishu/), [Somalia Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Training and Research Hospital](https://onco.cc/institutions/erdogan-hospital-mogadishu/), [Union for International Cancer Control](https://onco.cc/institutions/uicc/), [World Health Organization Cancer Programme](https://onco.cc/institutions/who/)

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