{"entity":{"id":"abmed-benin","kind":"institution","name":"Agence Béninoise du Médicament et des autres produits de Santé (ABMed)","aka":["ABMed","Benin Medicines Agency"],"tldr":"Benin's medicines regulator, a public agency under the health ministry. It approves medicines, authorises clinical trials, licenses pharmaceutical businesses and monitors the safety of medicines.","summary":"ABMed describes itself as a public establishment with legal personality and financial autonomy under the supervision of the Ministry of Health, charged by Decree 2023-422 of 26 July 2023 with coordinating national policy on medicines and other health products and controlling the pharmaceutical sector. Its directorates cover inspection and regulation, vigilance and market surveillance, registration and clinical trials, and quality. Its site offers applications for marketing authorisation and for clinical trial authorisation, adverse event reporting and a register of approved products. Benin signed the African Medicines Agency treaty on 3 December 2019 and ratified it on 28 July 2021. WHO's August 2026 list of regulators at maturity level 3 or 4 does not include Benin. The coordinates are an approximate Cotonou city point; the agency gives offices in Cotonou and Parakou.","asOf":"2026-11-11","links":[{"label":"ABMed: presentation","url":"https://abmed.bj/presentation"},{"label":"ABMed","url":"https://abmed.bj/"},{"label":"African Union: signatures and ratifications of the African Medicines Agency treaty (19 September 2023, PDF)","url":"https://au.int/sites/default/files/treaties/36892-sl-TREATY_FOR_THE_ESTABLISHMENT_OF_THE_AFRICAN_MEDICINES_AGENCY.pdf"}],"tags":[],"related":[],"cancers":[],"sections":[],"technologies":[],"targets":[],"drugs":[],"companies":[],"institutions":["benin-ministry-of-health"],"pathways":[],"terms":[],"trials":[],"people":[],"bottlenecks":[],"keyPapers":[],"journals":[],"dependsOn":[],"notes":[],"city":"Cotonou","country":"BJ","lat":6.368,"lng":2.425,"institutionType":"government","website":"https://abmed.bj/","programs":["Marketing authorisation (homologation)","Clinical trial authorisation","Pharmacovigilance and market surveillance"]},"route":"/institutions/abmed-benin/","neighbours":{"institution":[{"id":"benin-ministry-of-health","kind":"institution","name":"Ministère de la Santé, Bénin","route":"/institutions/benin-ministry-of-health/"}]}}