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 ...

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 ...

WHO Member State Mechanism on Substandard and Falsified Products Discussion

Interview between the FDA’s Office of Global Policy and Strategy’s Communications Team and Dr. Paul Huleatt on the Member State Mechanism and his work as the Chair of the Mechanism’s Steering Committee. On top of being the Chair of the Mechanism’s Steering Committee, Dr. Huleatt represents Australia and the World Health Organization (WHO) Western Pacific ...

WHO Medical Product Alert: TETRACYCLINE HYDROCHLORIDE OPHTHALMIC

This WHO medical product alert refers to batches of TETRACYCLINE HYDROCHLORIDE OPHTHALMIC OINTMENT USP 1% manufactured by Galentic Pharma (India) Pvt. Ltd.This ointment is usually indicated for use in bacterial blepharitis, bacterial conjunctivitis, bacterial keratitis, and trachoma.However, five international procurers of the product independently conducted a visual examination of random samples of stock on hand ...

Navigating the Complexities of Essential Medicines and Health Product Policies

The World Health Organization is organizing a 5-day seminar in Geneva, aimed at professionals working in the pharmaceutical sector in low- and middle-income countries. The objective of this seminar is to allow participants to deepen their knowledge on critical issues such as the quality, supply, pricing issues, regulations, and falsified products,  and understand how WHO ...

Rafaella’s Literature Update

The following message is courtesy of Dr. Raffaella Ravinetto, Public Health Department, Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp, Belgium Ref. Chiumia FK, Nyirongo HM, Kampira E, Muula AS, Khuluza F (2022) Burden of and factors associated with poor quality antibiotic, antimalarial, antihypertensive and antidiabetic medicines in Malawi. PLoS ONE 17(12): e0279637 Ref. RPQ/REG/ISF/Alert N°1/2023. Substandard (contaminated) ...

Webinar: Current trends in sustainable health supply chain management

On the 28th of February 2023, the Humanitarian Commodities Logistics Community of Practice is organizing its first HCL Community Education Series in collaboration with USAID’s Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance (BHA). With them, there will be Marco Martari from Emergency NGO and Samantha Brangeon from Joint Initiative for Sustainable Humanitarian Packaging Waste Management. The conversation will be based on the current trends in sustainable health ...

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