Fighting poor quality health products in times of Covid-19 and beyond: the need for a multi-stakeholder approach

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. ...

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 ...

RAFAELLA’S LITERATURE UPDATE

Be-cause Health & QUAMED literature updates Ref. Twesigye G, Hafner T, Guzman J. Making the investment case for national regulatory authorities. J Pharm Pol Practices 2021: 14-16; https://doi.org/10.1186/s40545-021-00299-7 Dear Friend, In the attached paper, Twesigye and colleagues make an important case that there is a need to support the strengthening of national regulatory authorities (NRAs), which play an ...

Why an African Medicines Agency, Why Now?

Following the multi-stakeholder Call to AU Heads of State to Ratify the AMA Treaty the IAPO will be holding a virtual panel discussion on “Why an African Medicines Agency, Why Now?” that will take place from 14.20 to 15.20 CET on Wednesday, March 10th, as part of the African Health Agenda International Conference (AHAIC) 2021. The panel ...

STORAGE AND DISTRIBUTION PRACTICES AUDIT

QUAMED’s experts have completed a Good Storage and Distribution Practices audit at CAMESKIN ( https://www.cameskin.org/ ) and GSDP technical visits with two private-sector for-profit pharmaceutical wholesalers. They are still in Kinshasa. The picture shows our experts in the CAMESKIN warehouse. Friday one of our experts will be travelling to Goma and visit Asrames (www.asrames.org) and the ...

RAFFAELLA’S LITERATURE UPDATE

Be-cause Health & QUAMED literature updates References: Faiva et al. Drug supply shortage in Nigeria during COVID‑19: efforts and challenges J of Pharm Policy and Pract (2021) 14:17 Uwizeyimana et al. Drug supply situation in Rwanda during COVID‑19: issues, efforts and challenges J of Pharm Policy and Pract (2021) 14:12 Dear Friend, Proper supply of ...

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