QUAMED fully supports the call to the Heads of State of the African Union to Ratify the African Medicines Agency Treaty. See for more information: https://lnkd.in/daiTKth.
Quality Assurance and Quality Control Proposal to RCE-VIHSCM
We are delighted that the RCE-VIHSCM (https://hscm.ur.ac.rw/), part of the University of Rwanda, has positively evaluated our proposal to develop for them a Master’s Degree Program in Pharmaceutical Quality Assurance and Quality Control. The proposal was developed by a consortium composed of QUAMED, ITM, Action Medeor and two other organisations. We hope to finalize the ...
Enabel: Access to Quality Vaccine
For our francophone colleagues. Please read the article by Jean van Wetter, Executive Director of Enabel. On important issues such as access and quality in the Covid-19 era with reference to DRC, ITM and QUAMED: https://lnkd.in/dUDxXgy
USP Seminar: Ensuring Quality Hand Sanitiser
The quality of hand sanitiser counts. USP is hosting a Global Seminar Series, Ensuring Quality Hand Sanitiser Production During COVID-19, to help ensure quality alcohol-based hand sanitiser production and support the safe use of alcohol-based hand sanitiser.See https://lnkd.in/dgJ3smZ for a useful webinar.
CDC reminds us of Safety Measures against COVID-19
The advice coming from the CDC is welcome. Please follow the link: https://m.emailupdates.cdc.gov/rest/head/mirrorPage/@z0zhX8hSzzATXgiOIWBOdyNo1iW29LUsDSypbLX1lijxXTotSyO-mjK9aTuCjL0KlbnmsXNwVc_biQf_LKNXcPPldk-sLrRVVV72cfQf49fGyEwj.html It is important to follow the CDC advice (wearing a mask and sanitizing hands) but also to make certain that the masks and hand sanitation products that we purchase and distribute are good quality products”. If you want to review the sources of ...
Be-Cause Health Meeting
On the 28th of January, the Medicines working group of Be-cause Health met. The minutes of the meeting are availableon this page, under external documents, minutes of the working group: https://www.be-causehealth.be/en/bchgroups/access-to-quality-medicines/. You can also use the direct URL of the document to link to https://www.be-causehealth.be/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/210128-BH-WG-Medicines-Minutes-Final.docx.
Medical Product Quality Reports by IDDO
Please do visit on a regular basis the IDDO site for information and to download their medical product quality reports. These reports are a great source of information. In the last issue, for example, they identified over 469 relevant articles that reported on incidents related to COVID-19 medical products. The articles covered more than 534 ...
Zambia: Honeybee Pharmaceutical Licence Cancelled due to defective products
For our members and partners working in Zambia, please do be careful when purchasing locally. Zambia Watchdog reports that there are sub-standard products on the market (see link). The fall-out of this particular case may have contributed to the removal of the Minister of Health from his position.
RAFFAELLA’S LITERATURE UPDATE
Be-cause Health & QUAMED literature updates Ref The selection and use of essential in vitro diagnostics: report of the third meeting of the WHO Strategic Advisory Group of Experts on In Vitro Diagnostics, 2020 (including the third WHO model list of essential in vitro diagnostics). Geneva: World Health Organization; 2021 (WHO Technical Report Series, No. 1031). ...
Webinar QUAMED services
We would like to thank our members for their participation. A total of 42 of our members and some prospective membres participated in our French (Monday the 25th of January 2021) and English (Tuesday, the 26th) webinars on our technical services. Sandrine Cloëz and Laurine Lavergne presented in some detail the technical visits and audits ...
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