National Drug Authority · Uganda
DEA-UG-2018-44654198
Tier 1 · Regulator-publishedUnclassifiedSafety communicationStatus · activeNot shown in search engines
- Issuing authority
- National Drug Authority (NDA)
- Authority reference
- 1163/NDA/DPS/08/2018
- Date issued
- Aug 2018Read from the archived document: authority reference 1163/NDA/DPS/08/2018; the circular prints no date, confirmed by a person reading the scan. The circulars page states no date, and the month shown as uploaded is when the file reached the Authority's website.
- Recorded by us
- 2026-09-09 22:24:19 UTC
- Notice
- Increased risk of non-melanoma skin cancer associated with HCTZ
- INN / active substance
- Not stated by the issuing authority
- Dosage form
- Not stated by the issuing authority
- Strength
- Not stated by the issuing authority
- Manufacturer
- Not stated by the issuing authority
- Manufacturer country
- Not stated by the issuing authority
- MAH or importer
- Not stated by the issuing authority
- Batch numbers
- Not published with the notice
- Expiry dates
- Not published with the notice
- Action type
- Safety communication
- Classification
- Not stated by the issuing authority
- Indicative severity
- Not assessed by Drug Eye Africa
- Defect category
- Not stated by the issuing authority
- Product type
- Medicine
- ATC code
- Not stated by the issuing authority
- Affected markets
- Uganda — no market beyond the issuing country was named on the notice
- Cross-border event
- Not linked to a cross-border event
- Notice text
- Not captured. The notice itself is linked below.
- Status
- Active
- Superseded by
- Not superseded. This is the current version.
- Version
- 12
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- Copy of the source
- Taken and held by Drug Eye Africa, so the record survives the link above being moved or withdrawn. Not yet published at an address you can open.Ask us for it and check it against the fingerprint below.
- Fingerprint
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- Copy taken
- 2026-09-09 22:24:51 UTC
Cite this record
Drug Eye Africa (2018). DEA-UG-2018-44654198: Increased risk of non-melanoma skin cancer associated with HCTZ — Safety communication, National Drug Authority. Register of African Regulatory Actions. https://drugeyeafrica.org/register/notice/ug/2018/dea-ug-2018-44654198Version history
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Verification
Tier 1 — Published by the issuing regulator on its own channel and captured by Drug Eye Africa, with the source document archived.
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