From Source to Patient: Why Traceability Matters

What happens when a medical product can’t be traced back to its source? Patient safety is put at risk. Join the Peer Learning Certificate on Traceability in Health Supply Chains, a free, four-week, discussion-led program designed for professionals working across health product supply chains. Through short learning summaries, real-world case studies, and guided peer discussions, you’ll ...

Successful delivery of an in-country GSDP workshop for CIP SEARN initiative

Quamed supported the delivery of an in-country Good Storage and Distribution Practices (GSDP) workshop in partnership with SEARN (South-East Asia Regulatory Network) and WHO, which built on prerequisite online courses (https://learning.quamed.org/) and regional virtual sessions. The workshop aimed to enhance the practical skills of mid-level and junior inspectors in planning, conducting, and reporting regulatory inspections ...

Working Together to Strengthen Humanitarian Pharmaceutical Care

In December, QUAMED launched a technical support initiative for five French NGOs that are members of QUAMED. This support aims to assist these organisations in their application to open a humanitarian pharmaceutical distribution establishment, authorised by the French National Agency for the Safety of Medicines and Health Products (ANSM). The project focuses on: The project ...

Strengthening Pharmaceutical Inspectors’ Skills in Benin

As part of the REG-PHARMA project, funded by the French Development Agency (AFD) and implemented by Expertise France, Quamed is supporting ABMed, the Pharmaceutical Regulatory Authority of Benin, to strengthen its inspectors’ skills in regulatory inspections, with a focus on pharmaceutical establishments (distributors and manufacturers). Since July 2025, ABMed inspectors have participated in several GSDP ...

Barriers & Solutions Workshop on Local Procurement in Kabul

Today in Kabul, the Quamed and Relief International team conducted our Barriers & Solutions Workshop, focused on how to best facilitate local procurement of quality medical products in Afghanistan. Internet was still offline, which impeded registered turnout, but we had vibrant interactive discussions with over 35 external participants, with an even mix between government authorities, ...

Working Together for Quality Medicines

From September 9 to 11, 2025, we had the privilege of facilitating a World Health Organisation workshop in Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo, focused on capacity building in quality assurance for the Procurement of Medical Products. Together with WHO AFRO, WHO HQ, and our QUAMED team, we worked with 25 participants from WHO regional and ...

RI Local Medical Supplier Development Project

At the end of two weeks of stakeholder meetings in Kabul, together with the Relief International team, the Quamed team formally kicked off the Local Medical Supplier Development Project in Afghanistan with the project’s Inception Workshop. The workshop was attended by 50+ delegates, who heard preliminary findings from the market analysis of the local medical ...

GSDP: Agence Congolaise de Réglémentation Pharmaceutique

On Monday, the 28th of February, our auditor Jean-Christophe Pelissier has worked with the Agence Congolaise de Réglémentation Pharmaceutique (ACOREP) in DRC. He facilitated training on Good Storage and Distribution Practices and how to conduct a Pharmaceutical Inspection and Audit. There were 33 participants in the training. As a follow-up to the training, Mr Pelissier ...

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 ...

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 ...

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