Rwanda FDA Registered Human Medicines

The Human Medicines Drug Register of the Rwanda Food and Drugs Authority (Rwanda FDA) as clean JSON with English keys: registration number and series, brand and generic names, active ingredients, strength, dosage form, pack size, shelf life, manufacturer and its country, marketing authorisation holder, local technical representative, ISO registration and expiry dates, and registration status. About 2,600 registered products; the whole register takes under 10 seconds.

Who needs this

• Pharmaceutical companies, distributors and importers checking which products are registered in Rwanda, who holds each registration, who makes it and when it expires.
• Market-access and regulatory-affairs teams watching competitors' registrations, new approvals (registeredSince) and upcoming expiries (expiringBefore).
• Procurement, tender and supply-chain teams, NGOs and donors verifying that a product and its manufacturer are registered before buying or shipping.
• Pharmacovigilance, research and journalism studying what is registered, by whom and from which countries.
• AI agents and automations that need one stable schema instead of a web page.

Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
brandName	string	""	Brand (trade) name contains this text, any case (besicor).
genericName	string	""	Generic name or an active ingredient contains this text, any case (paracetamol).
registrationNumber	string	""	Registration number contains this text, ignoring spaces and case (HBP-MA, FDA-HMP-MA-2360).
manufacturer	string	""	Manufacturer's company name contains this text, any case (cipla). Addresses are not searched.
holder	string	""	Marketing authorisation holder or local agent contains this text, any case (sanofi).
country	string	""	Manufacturer's country contains this text, any case (india matches INDIA and India).
dosageForm	string	""	Dosage form contains this text, any case (tablet, injection).
registeredSince	string	""	Registered on or after this date (YYYY-MM-DD).
expiringBefore	string	""	Registration expires before this date (YYYY-MM-DD).
includeExpired	boolean	true	Keep registrations whose expiry date has passed (the register lists them in a grace period).
maxItems	integer	100	Stop after storing this many products (1-10,000).
proxyConfiguration	object	no proxy	Optional Apify Proxy, if the Rwanda FDA site is unreachable from Apify's network.

Filters combine with AND. The register is one web page with no search of its own, so every run reads the page once and the actor applies the filters to each product before storing it.

Output

One dataset item per registered product. Text is kept as the register publishes it with the whitespace tidied; dates are ISO (YYYY-MM-DD); empty cells (the register prints "—") are null. The Output tab on this page documents every field, and a run summary (OUTPUT) reports what was stored, how many register rows were read, the total the page reports and why the run stopped.

A real product:

{
  "registrationNumber": "Rwanda FDA-HMP-MA-2217",
  "registrationSeries": "HMP",
  "brandName": "ZINNIA P",
  "genericName": "Levonorgestrel 0.15mg + Ethinylestradiol 0.03mg",
  "activeIngredients": ["Levonorgestrel 0.15mg", "Ethinylestradiol 0.03mg"],
  "strength": "150mcg + 30mcg",
  "dosageForm": "tablets",
  "dosageFormNormalized": "tablets",
  "packSize": "28 Tablets",
  "shelfLife": "36 Months",
  "shelfLifeMonths": 36,
  "manufacturer": "MYLAN LABORATORIES LIMITED",
  "manufacturerCountry": "India",
  "holder": "MYLAN LABORATORIES LIMITED",
  "localRepresentative": "Pyramid Pharma Limited",
  "registeredAt": "2025-02-04",
  "expiresAt": "2030-02-03",
  "registrationStatus": "active",
  "sourceUrl": "https://monitoring.rwandafda.gov.rw/register/hmdr/",
  "fetchedAt": "2026-10-21T22:23:46.444Z"
}

Notes on the fields:

• registrationSeries is HMP for human medicinal products (Rwanda FDA-HMP-MA-NNNN), HBP for human biological products such as vaccines and insulins (Rwanda FDA-HBP-MA-NNNN), and legacy for the older number formats (RWANDA-FDA25/HM/0373/0034 and others).
• activeIngredients splits the generic name at "+", ";" and a "/" between two names ("TENOFOVIR/LAMIVUDINE"); a "/" inside a strength ("250mg/5ml") does not split.
• dosageForm and manufacturerCountry are as published: the register writes the same form or country in many spellings ("Tablets", "TABLETS"; "INDIA", "India"). dosageFormNormalized is the form in lower case, for grouping and filtering.
• shelfLifeMonths is the leading number of the free-text shelfLife ("36 Months", "36", "24 month"); a bare number is months.
• holder is the marketing authorisation holder (MAH) or local agent; the register's "MAH / Local Agent" column often continues with an address and contact details, which are never output (see Data and privacy).
• registrationStatus is worked out by the actor: active while expiresAt is today or later (today in Rwanda) or unknown, expired after it. The register keeps expired registrations listed during a grace period; set includeExpired to false to leave them out.
• Duplicates. A few registration numbers appear twice on the page for different products; both are kept. A row that repeats another's registration number, brand and strength (ignoring case and spacing) is stored once.

Pricing

Pay per event:

Event	Charged for
product-record	Each registered product stored in the dataset.

Apify's standard run-start event covers starting the actor. Products are stored first and charged after, so you never pay for data you did not receive. When your spending limit runs out, the run stops cleanly and never stores an unpaid product.

Data source and politeness

• Source: the Rwanda FDA Human Medicines Drug Register page, https://monitoring.rwandafda.gov.rw/register/hmdr/, linked from the authority's "Products repositories" page. The page holds the whole register (about 7 MB, about 0.7 MB compressed); its search box filters rows in the browser.
• One request per run. The actor downloads the page once, compressed, and reads it as it arrives. When maxItems is reached and no filter is set, it stops the download early: 10 products read about 16 KB.
• Only the register: the actor never requests the product-leaflet or recall pages or anything else on the site. No login, no captcha; the certificate is always verified.
• It identifies itself honestly as rw-fda-actor/0.1 (+https://apify.com/a-g-d/rw-fda).
• robots.txt: the register host publishes no rules; the authority's main site only turns away a list of named bots.
• Measured runs: the prefill (10 products) in 4 seconds; the whole register, 2,610 products, in 7 seconds; a "paracetamol" search, 138 products, in 5 seconds; everything registered since 2026-01-01, 177 products, in 7 seconds.
• Resilience: connection errors, timeouts, HTTP 5xx and 429, redirects, cut-off pages and answers that are not the register page are retried with exponential backoff and jitter inside a run-wide budget, each attempt reading the page from the top. A refusal, a challenge page or a changed table stops the run with a clear message rather than working around it or storing wrong data.
• Run timeout: the default run timeout is 10 minutes, far more than a run needs. If a run would still outlast its timeout (for example a shorter one you set), the actor stops reading 20 seconds before it, stores every product read so far and ends SUCCEEDED with a status message saying so.
• Terms: the Rwanda FDA websites carry a copyright footer ("©2026 Rwanda Food and Drug Authority"); their "Terms" and "Privacy" footer links lead nowhere, no terms-of-use page exists, and the national privacy policy they link to does not mention automated access or reuse. The register is published so the public can check which medicines are authorised. Check Rwanda FDA's terms for your own use of the data.

Data and privacy

The register publishes product and company data. The actor outputs only the fields listed above, an allowlist, and treats the company columns strictly, because the register writes addresses, phone numbers and e-mail addresses (some of them named people's work addresses) into them:

• MAH / Local Agent: the company name only. The actor keeps the text before the first address or contact label ("Address", "Adresse", "Country", "Pays", "Tel", "Telephone", "Fax", "E-mail", "Plot", "P.O. Box"…, also when glued to the name), comma, semicolon or line break, after a leading "(Company) Name:" label. The rest of the cell is never output. A comma followed only by a legal form ("COMBINO PHARM MALTA, LTD") does not end the name.
• Manufacturer: the same rule, after joining a name the register splits across lines.
• Local technical representative: passed through only under the same test below.
• Fail closed. A company name that still contains a digit, an e-mail address, a phone number or an address word (street, road, avenue, plot, P.O. box, floor, building, house…) is output as null instead of being cut further. On the whole register this leaves 613 distinct holder names and nulls the holder of 26 products.
• Never output: any e-mail address, phone number or street address; any other text value that contains an e-mail address or a phone number is output as null.
• Company names can include a place that is part of the registered name ("SANDOZ GmbH KUNDL", "CIPLA LTD/INDIA"); these are kept as published.

Limitations

• Which products are listed is the register's choice. The page lists the human medicines Rwanda FDA has registered, expired ones in their grace period included; it does not cover veterinary products, medical devices or premises.
• Totals change. New registrations are added as they are granted; a run is a snapshot.
• Data quality is the register's. Typos, spelling variants and missing cells are kept as published; a holder or manufacturer the register writes with an address and no clear separator may be null.