Alarming Findings on Essential Medicine Quality in Nepal’s Public Health Facilities

This an interesting study for those organizations that are supporting health facilities in Nepal. Assessment of Essential Medicine Quality in Nepal’s Public Health Facilities: Alarming Findings! A nationwide study reveals concerning results regarding the quality of essential medicines in Nepal’s public health care facilities. Only 13% of facilities followed storage guidelines, and 37 batches out ...

QUAMED Online Learning Platform

As previously announced, Quamed is working on an online learning platform with the aim to increase the knowledge and capability around the quality assurance of pharmaceuticals for staff working with public & private pharmaceutical suppliers and the national regulatory authorities. The development of this platform is supported by the Bureau of Humanitarian Affairs of USAID. ...

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QUAMED joins the Global Health Supplies discussion on Nov 28th 2022

The QUAMED director Ed Vreeke participates in the Joint UNICEF, UNFPA and WHO meeting with manufacturers and suppliers in Copenhagen ( 28 November-01 December 2022). The title of the meeting is Global Health Supplies: Paradigm Shifts in Market Authorization, Procurement and Supply Chains Approach. We are represented to learn more about the quality assurance systems of suppliers and the QA needs of procurers ...

PAHO GSDP & MQAS Training Program

QUAMED has signed a contract with PAHO to develop a GSDP (Good Storage and Distribution Practices) and MQAS (Model Quality Assurance Systems for Procurement Agencies) training program. To develop this training we are partnering with the Institute of Tropical Medicine and with the University of Western Cape as well as with individual technical specialists. The GSDP/MQAS training ...

ECOWAS Epidemiology Network

The ECOWAS has launched its 2018-2019 West Africa Epidemiology Network on Drug Use (WENDU) Report with an aim at effectively fighting illicit drug use and trafficking in the sub-region. This report contains statistics and trends of illicit drug supply and drug use in the region and will help the ECOWAS member states in developing programmes, ...

The quality of Cardiovascular medicines

Today, there is a growing need for good quality cardiovascular medicines and devices for the prevention and management of the ever-growing threats of cardiovascular diseases(CVDs) globally. That is why the objective of this study was to review the available literature on SF cardiovascular medicines/devices, with a focus on prevalence studies to discuss their impacts on ...

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. ...

Collaboration of Quamed with Mauritanian Health Ministry

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 ...

WHO on new guidance to promote Strong, Efficient and Sustainable Regulatory Systems

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 ...

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 ...

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