Short Description The COVID-19 pandemic is exerting enormous pressure on health systems around the world. Following the 2014 West African Ebola outbreak, health systems strengthening activities and interventions received increased funding and gained prominence in Guinea and Sierra Leone. Germany has played a major role in responding to the Ebola…
Short Description Ensuring the availability, quality and integrity of medicinal products worldwide remains critical and challenging for healthcare systems today. Patient safety is at the core of high-quality healthcare. Sub-standard drugs/poor quality products have a negative impact on the safety and effectiveness of treatments as well as directly contributing to…
Joint guidelines: Ambitious work plan for 2021 and 2022 The four national medicines regulatory authorities (NMRAs) of Ghana (FDA Ghana), Liberia (LMHRA), Sierra Leone (PBSL) and The Gambia (MCA Gambia) are working as TWG-MAG members with the PharmTrain team in a joint effort to develop guidelines for marketing authorization. In…
As part of the ORDER-HC project, a team of the RKI and COMAHS conducted a qualitative study in Sierra Leone between the end of 2021 and the end of 2022. The aim of the study was to identify and analyse strategies, measures and experiences of health care providers of maintaining…
At the end of the first phase of the GHPP-DQA project, alumni and trainers from all DQA trainings as well as project staff from BfArM, InphA and WHO met for a virtual alumni meeting. The central point was a review of the activities and achievements of the DQA project so…
Prior to the study visit After the successful fellowship at the BfArM with two colleagues from Ghana and Zimbabwe in 2019, the corona pandemic forced the project team to change plans. Already initiated preparations for a continuation of the onsite programme had to be dropped. Instead, with the Online Fellowship…
After being welcomed warmly by the management and entire staff of the chemistry division, the DQA team was introduced to the structures, the statuses as well as the perspectives of the laboratories at MCAZ. With three laboratory sections, the authority is able to perform the quality control of both medicines…