South Africa’s struggle to increase access to anti-retroviral medications decades ago focused attention on the relationship between patent protection and high medicine prices. The COVID-19 pandemic has drawn greater attention to the cost of pharmaceutical technologies and the inequitable access to these. Globally this has raised concerns about the impact of the 1994 World Trade ...
Dear members, As we near our GA meeting set on the 9th June 2021, we’d like to kindly remind you all that it is crucial to check out our latest newsletter with the membership folder that includes all the important documents you’ll need for voting. As it is a statutory requirement, be sure to check it ...
Dear e-medians, Maybe last year you missed -as I did- the publication of this important document from WHO. It aims to “help countries develop their own national essential medicines lists and, through these lists and other medicines policy actions, to move towards UHC and the goal of ensuring that all people and communities have access ...
Dear all,we invite you to the inaugural A4ID Annual Conference 2021, held on 25-26 June 2021via Zoom. This year’s theme: ‘Towards a more just post-pandemic world will focus on ideas that are emerging as responses from the rule of law and pro bono space to address the challenges of the ongoing pandemic.’ As an organization closely ...
We are pleased to share with you the link to the first articles recently published on BMJ Global Health on ‘The social and ethical problems of poor quality and misuse of medical products’ (https://gh.bmj.com/content/6/Suppl_3/) This issue includes a “hands-on” manuscript by Katherine Enright: Elusive quality: the ethical challenges and dilemmas facing international non-governmental organizations in the ...
Podcast: [e-med] The role of the pharmacist around the world (RFI)Duration: 50 minutesBy: Caroline ParéListen here Around the world, the role of the pharmacist differs according to the continents. We take a look at three countries: the United States, France and Cameroon.In the United States, Walmart, owner of a vast network of pharmacies, is under ...
World Health Organization (WHO) estimates from 2017 indicates that 10.5% of medical products available in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) are “substandard or falsified” (SF). Substandard health products are approved by the national regulators, but they do not comply with adequate standards due to undetected errors, negligence, or poor practice in manufacturing, transportation, or storage. ...
Jean-Christophe Pelissier meets with Minister of Health Minister Hon. Dr. Mohamed Nedhirou Hamed in the light of our collaboration to introduce good pharmaceutical practices in Mauritania. This will be done through: Phase 1: An inventory of private and public wholesalers based on the WHO MQAS and BPDS guidelines Phase 2: A proposal for specifications that ...
29 April 2021 Departmental news Reading time: 2 min (546 words) The World Health Organization, (WHO) has recently published two documents that will be critical for countries’ regulatory system strengthening activities, including regulatory cooperation, convergence and transparency. Good Regulatory Practices (GRP) and Good Reliance Practices (GReP), published as Annexes 10 and 11 in the 55th report of the WHO Expert ...
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, ...
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