Webinars: Quality Assurance & Medical Devices

QUAMED has organized the 14th and 16th March webinars for its members about quality assurance and medical devices. These webinars have been facilitated in French and in English by one of our experts, Maria MOYA. Nearly 60 people participated, including quality assurance teams from central medical stores and regional medical stores of Madagascar and DRC. Thanks again ...

QUAMED: Learning Management System

QUAMED https://quamed.org/ seeks to engage a service provider for the development of the QUAMED Learning Management System (LMS). The LMS is part of a QUAMED project to develop an online learning program on pharmaceutical quality assurance pertaining to WHO standards on Good Storage and Distribution Practices (GSDP) and Model Quality Assurance System (MQAS) for procurement agencies. For ...

Job Alert: Technical and Logistical Support Officer (TLSO)

QUAMED is looking for a Technical and Logistical Support Officer (TLSO). The successful candidate will increase our technical and logistical management capacity. This will allow us to manage the growing number of assessment requests (audits and technical visits) that we are receiving. Please find the job description attached. If you feel that you are a right ...

Gender Equality: Insufficient Female Representation

The following message is courtesy of Dr Raffaella Ravinetto, Public Health Department, Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp, Belgium. Dear Members of the Medicine Working Group, Many of you are interested in issues related to gender equality. Perhaps you will therefore find interesting reading in the weblinks below, which look respectively at the (insufficient) female representation ...

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. ...

QUAMED Quality Certification Program (QCP)

QUAMED has launched, the QUAMED Quality Certification Program (QCP). The aim of the QCP is to support access to quality-assured medicines through an accreditation program that enables purchasers to identify reliable suppliers.   The QUAMED QCP provides a recognized quality assessment certification to public and private pharmaceutical wholesalers and manufacturers according to internationally recognized criteria as defined and adopted by the World Health Organization (WHO).    There ...

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QUAMED – Welcomed New members

The board of directors of QUAMED is happy to announce that in their December meeting, they warmly welcomed and accepted three membership applications from the following organizations. CADIMEBU. A regional medical store based in Bunia, DRC, and partner of the Congolese government with a mandate to make essential medicine accessible to the population and contribute to the promotion ...

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QUAMED Call to Auditors & Experts

As we grow, we’d like to launch a call to applications for independent and experienced experts and auditors who are interested in becoming validated QUAMED experts and auditors. We are looking for GSDP (Good Storage and Distribution Practices) auditors to conduct on-site audits of pharmaceutical suppliers, GSDP experts to perform GSDP technical visits, whether on-site or remotely, ...

JOB ALERT – ISO Certification Expert

QUAMED is looking for an expert to assist our team to prepare for an ISO certification (ISO 17021:2015, ISO 17065:2015 or ISO 19011:2018). The expert should be able to advise us as to which of the three ISO certifications would fit best with our Quality Certification Program (QCP). Having such a certification in addition to ...

Quamed keeps it green

In the course of 2022, QUAMED has started including the offset for the CO2 emissions of the travel of its experts and staff in our budgets. All our members and partners have contributed through the payment of their invoices. We fund CO2 compensation (# of tonnes) and we fund planting trees through ecologi.com. Since we started, we ...

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