Reporting by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, in partnership with STAT, reveals that at least a dozen brands of the crucial childhood cancer drug, asparaginase, have been proven to be poor quality. In some cases, brands fell well below the standard needed to treat cancer, and many have also been found to contain contaminants such ...
One of our members, Enabel is organizing together with the Africa CDC and other partners from Africa a high-level conference on “Making quality health products accessible to all – Towards an Africa-EU partnership in global health”. Three main areas will be covered: Structural solutions for equitable access to quality health products; access to and transfer ...
Share invitation for the webinar: Financing Universal Health Coverage in the face of instability.Date: February 10, 2022, as part of the Health Systems Global Webinar Series. To register: https://who.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_eGH6qS68RpSOE512IeHp8A Find more information here: https://mailchi.mp/30368ca8230c/governance-in-support-of-common-goods-for-health-webinar-nov-14123530 Many countries face instability that affects the ability of the state to perform its functions and provide basic services to its ...
In recent months, 15 African Union Member States have ratified the Treaty for the creation of the African Medicines Agency, which will ease the monitoring of safety and effectiveness of marketed medicines and vaccines across Africa. Following the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention(Africa CDC), the African Medicines Agency will be the second cross-continental African ...
In 2019, an Iraqi Ministry of Health (MOH) report found that around 60-70% of medicines in the private sector do not enter the country through official processes (they are neither registered nor quality tested) – a problem that arose in Iraq after 2003, when the importation of medicines to the private sector became decentralised. Substandard and ...
Dr. Prosper Hiag, who facilitated our last QUAMED member webinar, appealed to drug regulators in Africa at a regional workshop in Lagos, Nigeria. He asked them to enact laws to guide the practice of internet pharmacy across the continent. The event was held under the theme: “Technological innovations for pharmacy in Africa amidst the Covid-19 ...
The collection and assessment of adverse reactions are important in the first decade after the marketing authorization of a drug. The information gathered in this period could help, for example, identify complications from its use that were unknown before its commercialization. However, when it comes to medicines that have been on the market for a ...
A study done to assess the quality of timolol eye drops sold in Kinshasa, DRC has proved that the eye drops from Congolese and Indian manufacturers sold in Kinshasa are of substandard quality. This may reflect deficiencies in the manufacturers and local authorities charged with the regulation of the quality control and sale of pharmaceuticals.Read ...
COVID-19 vaccines are vital interventions to help end the pandemic. However, issues with equitable global access, falsified, diverted and substandard (especially degraded) vaccines are highly likely to become increasingly global public health problems. Read the latest Medicine Product Quality Report on substandard and falsified (SF) COVID-19 vaccines, which summarise reports in the public domain including ...
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 ...
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