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Ref.    Vidhamaly V, Bellingham K, Newton PN, et al. The quality of veterinary medicines and their implications for One Health. BMJ Global Health 2022;7:e008564. Dear Friends,  Substandard and falsified (SF) veterinary medicines may lead to negative health impacts for animals, farming communities and beyond, but data are scarce and scattered. Therefore, Vidhamaly and colleagues conducted a review of ...

The QUAMED Team is very happy to welcome Ms Linda Mudyiwenyama, who’s joining our Operations Team as a regulatory expert. She’s a trained pharmacist with an MSc in Pharmacy Administration and Policy Regulation from the University of Western Cape, South Africa. For 10 years, she has dedicated herself to the Medicines Control Authority of Zimbabwe ...

QUAMED is happy to announce that the QUAMED Quality Certification Programme (QCP) is ready to be launched. The QCP is a certification program managed by QUAMED, where QUAMED issues certificates to manufacturers or wholesalers to attest that their operations, systems and procedures comply with the WHO standards. Three types of certificates may be delivered: one related to ...

Congratulations to all the NRA staff who are completing our GSDP inspections course, developed for PAHO on their virtual campus. Having just finished their final assignments, the English group is now planning the next steps to integrate the learnings into practice.

Our expert Chiel Lijdsman conducted GSDP technical visits in Turkey and in North Eastern Syria for a period of 3 weeks that ended on the 12th of August. In Turkey he visited 5 suppliers and in NES he visited 8 suppliers. To accomplish all of that Relief International, International Rescue Committee, financially and logistically supported ...

Our auditor Jean Christophe Pelissier concluded a visit to Chad. He visited 8 suppliers and conducted 3 Good Storage and Distribution Practices technical visits, 2 GSDP audits and 1 MQAS audit. He is finalising the Chad assignment by doing 2 more remote GSDP technical visits. Most of the reports will be available in our database 60 days ...

Our auditor Anthony Bourasseau has finalised the on-site visit of the MQAS audit of Munir Sukhtian Group (MSG) based in Jordan. In about 60 days from now, the audit report will be available in our database for our subscribers to consult. We thank FHI360 and USAID who requested and funded the audit.

Ref.  Gnegel, G., Häfele-Abah, C., Neci, R. et al. Surveillance for substandard and falsified medicines by local faith-based organizations in 13 low- and middle-income countries using the GPHF Minilab. Sci Rep 12, 13095 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-17123-0 Dear Colleagues, This interesting manuscript from our friends of EPN and University of Tubingen, evaluates the use of the Global Pharma Health Fund (GPHF) Minilab ...

On 28 September, the SPF Public Health, in collaboration with the SPF Foreign Affairs, ITM, the Be-Cause Health platform and the NGO IYAD, is organising a conference entitled:“Pain therapy in D.R. Congo. A neglected element in the process of UHC of a weakened health system”. Please find the programme below. The purpose of this meeting ...

QUAMED’s board of directors is happy to announce that it has appointed Mr Tahina Andrianjafy as the chair of its internal audit committee. It is expected that he will continue in that capacity for a period of 3 years. Mr Andrianjafy brings 25 years of experience in the management and implementation of pharmaceutical supply chains programs. He ...