In 2021, we were fortunate to welcome new members, with 29 organisations and 23 individual members. Our activities have also increased significantly from just 1 single audit in 2020 to 8 MQAS audits, 10 GSDP audits and 76 GSDP technical visits in 2021. We are pleased to share our QUAMED Annual Report of 2021. Both ...
Quamed’s Quality Management System
Over the past 2 years, QUAMED has invested in developing its quality management system (QMS). Our QMS manual, procedures, and policies that are part of the QMS are all based on the QUAMED quality policy. This policy includes our commitment to continually improving our QMS. It also provides a framework to set quality objectives and ...
Inspection of medical products distributors against WHO GSDP
Our pilot virtual course “Inspection of medical products distributors against WHO GSDP”, is well underway and will continue until the end of August 2022. We developed this course for PAHO. The target group for the course are the NRA staff in the Latin American and the Caribbean (LAC) region. The English group includes 18 participants ...
Looking for Resident Regulatory Expert
QUAMED as a member of Team Belgium is continuing to prepare technical support for the Rwanda FDA (www.rwandafda.gov.rw). For that purpose, we are looking for a regulatory expert who has strong experience and expertise, specifically in dossier assessments and registration, Market Surveillance, GMP Inspections and Pharmacovigilance. The expert has to have at least 10 years ...

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 ...

Webinar Series: EudraGMDP
Last week we held our first two QUAMED webinars of the year, in both English and French, with 36 people attending. The webinar topics were the #EudraGMDP database, presented by Valérie Solbes of MdM France and Didier Morellet of Première Urgence Internationale, and the USFDA medical devices databases, presented by Aida Cancel and Alexandra Guta from #FHI360 – thank you to the excellent presenters! Our #WebinarSeries will continue ...

Quamed: Zambia Audits
Our GSDP auditor, Mr Alex Kosyak (4th from left), has successfully finalised 3 #GSDP #audits in Zambia. He is shown here with the staff of Sterelin Medical & Diagnostics, one of the three suppliers that were audited.
Enabel: Making quality health products accessible to all
One of our members, Enabel is organizing together with the Africa CDC and other partners from Africa a high-level conference on “Making quality health products accessible to all – Towards an Africa-EU partnership in global health”. Three main areas will be covered: Structural solutions for equitable access to quality health products; access to and transfer ...

Global Health: Change in International Procurement Policies for Medicines
How the concept of WHO-listed authorities will change international procurement policies for medicines Very interesting article written by a two of our members, Raffaella Ravinetto, and Cécile Macé, without forgetting Lembit Rägo, Secretary-General, Council for International Organisations of Medical Sciences, Geneva, Switzerland. Find it here: https://gh.bmj.com/content/6/Suppl_3/e008109.full and read more about the ideas that will also ...

Article: Poor-Quality Medicines
From a review conducted by Christelle Ange Waffo Tchounga, it has been identified that the problem with SF medicines, is that they are studied sufficiently in Cameroon whilst poor-quality medicines are known to cause much public health and socioeconomic problems. Find out more about it here: https://www.ajtmh.org/view/journals/tpmd/105/2/article-p284.xml
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