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QUAMED would like to thank Enabel for having offered their meeting room and conference services for the in-person meeting of our board of directors. On Friday, the 23rd of September, the recently elected board (June 2022) met for the first time in person. Daniel Vandenbergh remains the board chair supported by Patrick Lukulay, Ph.D. as the vice-chair. Melanie Kempster (Relief International) is ...

If you are a manager, executive or the one responsible for the distribution and supply of pharmaceutical products, this is for you. What you will learn: How the experience made in the Cold Chain can support strategies for transport under ambient conditions. The different challenges and solutions that can be implemented demonstrate how requirements can ...

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 ...