Be-cause Health & QUAMED literature updates Ref IAP 2020. A Call to Action: Furthering the fight against falsified and substandard medical products Dear Friend, I hope you had a nice break, and that you start this new year with plenty or energies! The struggle against substandard and falsified medicines continue also in 2021, and I am ...
Best wishes for 2021
Hello everybody, We would like to greet you and to wish you a happy new year 2021. 2020 was a difficult year. And at the same time, for QUAMED, and within QUAMED for each of us, it was also a very rich and dynamic year, a year of consolidation and structural progress, a year ...
Condoms
Condoms often do not get as much attention as other health products. However, the article below shows that significant sub-standard and falsified issues also exist for condoms. Citation: Tremelling J, All A, Lleras L, Cancel A, Jenkins D, Pina C, et al. (2019) Poor quality male latex condoms found in Dominican Republic: Quality assurance evaluation ...
Webinar: The French Academy of Science
A message from the French Academy of Science: We would like to inform you that a third exceptional COVID-19 session of the Academy of Sciences on vaccination will be organised on Thursday 17 December from 5 to 6.30 pm. The session will be available for live viewing on the Academy of Sciences YouTube channel through ...
We welcome three new members this week!
Early this week QUAMED’s board of directors happily accepted the membership applications of PFSCM, MDM-Spain and CAMEBU. Each of the organisations is a champion in their own right. We welcome them to our network. We appreciate the diversity in voices and opinions that they will bring to the discussions on quality assurance of pharmaceuticals and ...
Obituary Dr. P. Claver Kayumba
Some members of the QUAMED team have worked with Prof. Pierre Claver Kayumba in the past. Very recently we were discussing his initiative to develop a master’s degree on quality assurance. It would be the first one of its kind in the region. He has passed away unexpectedly. We fully support the content in the ...
From the IAP, A Call to Action: Furthering the fight against falsified and substandard medical products
From the Interacademy Partnership a call to action. Please follow the link for more information or download their call of action attached to this message. The call of action is available in English (attached), French (see the French version of this message), Arabic, Portuguese and Spanish (see the IAP website). A number our individual members ...
Raffaella’s literature update
Be-cause Health & QUAMED literature updates Ref Hauk C, SchafermannS, Martus P, Muzafarova N, Babaley M, Waning B, et al. (2020) Quality assurance in anti-tuberculosis drug procurement by the Stop TB Partnership—Global Drug Facility: Procedures, costs, time requirements, and comparison of assay and dissolution results by manufacturers and by external analysis. PLoS ONE 15(12): e0243428. ...
Activities are picking up!
This year we had very few audit and assessment activities. The pandemic wreacked havoc with our schedules. Up to date only 2 MQAS audits. However, it seems as if matters are picking up. We are slowly getting back to a regular operating level. We are thinking of, preparing or planning, GDP technical visits, GDP audits ...
Access to medicines: EPHA
The European Public Health Alliance organises a series of online discussions on key access to medicines (A2M) priorities bringing together thought leaders and policy-makers, academics, industry representatives and NGOs, for a frank discussion of European pharmaceutical policies. The next one is on the 8th of December. The topic is: “Will the EU be a wise ...
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