Fighting poor-quality health products in times of COVID19 and beyond

Dear Colleagues and Friends, To prevent, detect and combat poor-quality health products, it is urgent to strengthen the collaboration and synergies between the different stakeholders, and in particular regulators and law enforcement authorities. I am happy to inform you that Belgium organizes, in the frame of the 30th session of the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice (CCPCJ), with the support of UNODC, ...

Rafaella’s Literature Update

Be-cause Health & QUAMED literature updates ·         Ref. Bourasseau, A., Lavergne, L. & Ravinetto, R. Assessments of the quality systems of pharmaceutical distributors: a remote approach to be applied in times of COVID-19 and beyond. J of Pharm Policy and Pract 2021; 14, 43 Dear Friend, Today, I would like to present a very recent publication, which just appeared in ...

Covid-19 vaccines patents interview

QUAMED member and ITM expert Raffaella Ravinetto was invited by TerZake, a Belgium/Flemish television news programme to talk about Covid-19 vaccines patents. “Some countries produce medicines. With adequate investment, they could also produce corona vaccines. Not for their own country – we don’t want vaccine nationalism – but for the region.” To see her interview, please ...

Enabel Round Table

#TeamEuropeQUAMED was honoured to participate in a high-level round table hosted by Enabel, and in presence of Minister Kitir on May 6. Participants spanning the Belgian life sciences, academic research and development-cooperation ecosystem contemplated potential contributions and added value that Belgium can bring to scaling up the production capacity of vaccines, medicines and medical products ...

Job Alert: Global Fund

VACANCY: Global Fund is hiring for the following positions. Apply if interested or share with friends! Specialist, Vector Control Quality Assurance – GL D https://theglobalfund.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/External/job/Geneva/Vector-Control-Quality-Assurance-Specialist—GL-D_JR1590 Specialist, Medical Device and Personal Protective Equipment Quality Assurance – GL D – Temporary until May 2022 https://theglobalfund.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/External/job/Geneva/Specialist–Medical-Device-and-Personal-Protective-Equipment-Quality-Assurance—GL-D—Temporary-until-May-2022_JR1591 Specialist, Pharmaceuticals Products Quality Assurance, Supply Operations – GL D https://theglobalfund.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/External/job/Geneva/Specialist–Pharmaceuticals-Products-Quality-Assurance–Supply-Operations—GL-D_JR1526

RAFAELLA’S LITERATURE UPDATE

Be-cause Health & QUAMED literature updates Ref. Yaneth Gil-Rojas et al. Cost-effectiveness of Carbetocin versus Oxytocin for Prevention of Postpartum Hemorrhage Resulting from Uterine Atony in Women at high-risk for bleeding in Colombia. Rev Bras Ginecol Obstet 2018; 40(05): 242-250 DOI: 10.1055/s-0038-1655747 Dear Friend, In the 21st edition of the WHO Model List of Essential Medicines issued in ...

PROJECT PERF-APPRO

On the 14th of April, the QUAMED team (Laurine LAVERGNE, Jean Christophe Pelissier and Chiel Lijdsman) presented the results of the evaluation of the PERF-APPRO program funded by Expertise France. We visited the Comoros, Djibouti, Guinea and Mauritania. We found that each of the central medical stores had significantly improved its MQAS standards compliance. ACAME and the ...

Members: New Organisations

We are happy to welcome both Medical Teams International and action medeor e.V. as new members of QUAMED. We have now 29 organisational members and 19 individual members.  MTI is a US-based NGO providing care in the development and humanitarian settings with access to quality medicines component. Action Medeor, based in Germany with branches in Tanzania and ...

Call for petition

Sign this European Citizens’ Initiative to get the European Commission to take action to make vaccines and pandemic treatments a global public good, freely available to all. As COVID19 spreads rapidly around the world, we invite you to help accelerate solutions. No one is safe until everyone has access to safe and effective treatments and ...

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