Quamed: Until we meet again in 2023!

Dear Partners, Members, Friends, and Followers of Quamed. We would like to take this opportunity to send our gratitude to all of you for your support and collaboration over the whole year of 2022. Thanks to you we were able to achieve so much and we look forward to an even more engaging and exhilarating 2023. On this note, ...

Raffaella’s Literature Update

The following message is courtesy of Dr. Raffaella Ravinetto, Public Health Department, Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp, Belgium. Ref. Stolbrink M, Chinouya MJ, Jayasooriya S e al. Improving access to affordable quality-assured inhaled medicines in low- and middle-income countries. Int J Tuberc Lung Dis. 2022 Nov 1;26(11):1023-1032. Dear Friends, inhaled medicines for asthma and chronic ...

Yemen: GSDP Technical Visits

After a trip of almost 2 weeks, our expert Jason Bower will travel home from Aden, Yemen this weekend. Jason conducted GSDP technical visits with 9 pharmaceutical wholesalers. The selection of the suppliers was done by Relief International and QUAMED using, among other information, a pre-visit questionnaire that had been filled out by the suppliers ...

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Venezuela: GSDP Technical Visits

Our expert, the pharmacist Maria Moya, has returned from a visit to Venezuela. She conducted 11 GSDP technical visits of 11 suppliers located in 5 different municipalities. The assessments were done on the behalf of (and funded by): MDM Spain, International Rescue Committee, Save the Children International, Première Urgence International, Action Contre la Faim Spain ...

QUAMED 2022 In Numbers

Quamed would like to thank its members, partners, friends and followers for the ample support we received this year. This updated summary of our activities shows what that support has enabled us to do in 2022.

Raffaella’s Literature Update

Ref. CIOMS Special Newsletter “Fighting antimicrobial resistance”, November 2022 Dear Friends, Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR), including bacterial resistance to antibiotics, is among the major concerns for global health. This short newsletter of the Council for International Organizations of Medical Sciences (CIOMS) provides an overview of the situation, and a list of key-references for further reading. The ...

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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 ...

Rafaella’s Literature Update

Ref. Jenkins D, Diallo C, Payne M. Detecting falsified oral contraceptives by visual assessment and diffuse reflectance spectroscopy (350-2500 nm): the need for supplementing traditional pharmacopeia techniques and the public health implications. Heliyon. 2022 Oct 1;8(10):e10837. Dear Friends,  Today I wish to share a contribution from David Jenkins and colleagues from FHI 360. For those ...

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Exciting News: QUAMED ISO9001:2015 certified

We are happy to inform you that QUAMED is now ISO9001:2015 certified, thanks to the hard work done by our operational team and the volunteers from our Technical Committee. The audit was conducted by BSI. Our efforts started in 2020 when we started working on expanding our internal policies, processes and procedures and making them ...

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