Section 2: National Drug Policy

(1) The National Drug Policy shall be- (a) to ensure that essential, safe, efficacious and cost-effective drugs are made available to the entire population of Uganda to provide satisfactory health care; (b) to make a continuous review of the needs, knowledge and resources of essential drugs; (c) to promote the rational use of drugs both in the public and private sector; (d) to improve Government regulation and control on manufacture, production, importation, exportation, marketing and use of drugs; (e) to provide systematic public information and professional training and retraining of health workers; (f) to improve the registration of drugs and licensing of pharmaceutical premises; (g) to intensify research in all types of drugs, including traditional medicines; (h) to comply with the international regulations on drugs, including the conventions on narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances under international control; and (i) to fight against drug and substance abuse. (2) The National Drug Policy shall relate to the regulation of the importation, production, distribution, marketing, exportation and use of pharmaceuticals in the public as well as in the private sector and to any matter related to the above.