Enabel Rwanda in collaboration with the EU launched an MSc and Ph.D. programme in Biotechnology at the University of Rwanda. The aim of the program is to support access to vaccines and medicines locally. 100 students in the health sector will be able to take the MSc Programme in 4 years and 5 Ph.D. candidates ...

UNODC Report on Trafficking in Medical Products
With the high prevalence of infectious diseases in the Sahel countries and neighbours and the challenges in availability and affordability of access to healthcare, it creates a high demand for medical products and services. These needs unfortunately don’t always get met through formal channels. At least 605 tons of different medical products were seized in ...

Webinars: Quality Assurance & Medical Devices
QUAMED has organized the 14th and 16th March webinars for its members about quality assurance and medical devices. These webinars have been facilitated in French and in English by one of our experts, Maria MOYA. Nearly 60 people participated, including quality assurance teams from central medical stores and regional medical stores of Madagascar and DRC. Thanks again ...

Rafaella’s Literature Update
The following message is courtesy of Dr Raffaella Ravinetto, Public Health Department, Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp, Belgium. Ref: Do NT, Boupha P, Newton PN, et al. The quality of antiretroviral medicines: an uncertain problem. BMJ Global Health 2023;8:e011423. Dear Friends, We are not very much used to discussing quality problems for antiretroviral medicines (ARVs), ...

QUAMED: Learning Management System
QUAMED https://quamed.org/ seeks to engage a service provider for the development of the QUAMED Learning Management System (LMS). The LMS is part of a QUAMED project to develop an online learning program on pharmaceutical quality assurance pertaining to WHO standards on Good Storage and Distribution Practices (GSDP) and Model Quality Assurance System (MQAS) for procurement agencies. For ...

WHO Advisory Group on Blood Regulation, Availability and Safety (AG-BRAS)
Our regulatory expert Ms Linda Mudyiwenyama who is supporting the Rwanda FDA has participated in the first face-to-face meeting of the WHO Advisory Group on Blood Regulation, Availability and Safety (AG-BRAS) held at WHO headquarters, Geneva, Switzerland on March 7-8, 2023. The Advisory Group functions to support programs and activities in blood regulation and transfusion ...

Job Alert: Technical and Logistical Support Officer (TLSO)
QUAMED is looking for a Technical and Logistical Support Officer (TLSO). The successful candidate will increase our technical and logistical management capacity. This will allow us to manage the growing number of assessment requests (audits and technical visits) that we are receiving. Please find the job description attached. If you feel that you are a right ...

WHO French version of TRS1025 & TRS961
The World Health Organization (WHO) GSDP (Good Storage and Distribution Practices) standards (Annex 7 – TRS 1025 – Good storage and distribution practices for medical products ) published in 06/2020 is now available in French on the link Bonnes pratiques de stockage et de distribution des produits médicaux, as well as the “WHO Model guidance ...

Gender Equality: Insufficient Female Representation
The following message is courtesy of Dr Raffaella Ravinetto, Public Health Department, Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp, Belgium. Dear Members of the Medicine Working Group, Many of you are interested in issues related to gender equality. Perhaps you will therefore find interesting reading in the weblinks below, which look respectively at the (insufficient) female representation ...

Rafaella’s Literature Update
The following message is courtesy of Dr Raffaella Ravinetto, Public Health Department, Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp, Belgium References: Schier J, Chang A, Kapil V. Medication-Associated Diethylene Glycol Mass Poisoning – A Preventable Cause of Illness and Death. N Engl J Med. 2023 Mar 2. doi: 10.1056/NEJMp2215840 Bastani P et al. Acute Kidney Injury Among ...
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