Article 5 of the Treaty for the Establishment of the African medicines Agency states that the guiding principles shall be as follows:
The AMA is an institution that provides strategic direction promotes good public health practice in state parties through capacity building, and the promotion of continuous quality improvement in the delivery of medical products regulation.
The AMA’ s strongest asset is the trusted cultivates with its beneficiaries and stakeholders as a respected, evidence based institution. It will play an important role in champion, effective communication and information sharing across the continent.
The AMA is an Africa-owned institution. Parties will have primary ownership of AMA to ensure that the financial, human, infrastructural, and other resources are adequate for performing its function.
The AMA shall operate in accordance with generally accepted international standards of good governance, transparency,
and accountability:
In every strategic aim, objective or activity, the animal will demonstrate how its initiative adds value to the medical products, regulatory activities of state parties and other partners.
The AMA shall adhere to the principles of confidentiality in all its operations.
In all its functions the AMA shall adhere to international standards of quality management and create the conditions for continuous improvement of its regulatory practices, and those of NM RA of member states of the African Union.
