• Learning to Inspect Blood Manufacturing Facilities – BloodTrain and EuBIS Academy Conducted the Practical part of their Inspection Training with 16 countries in Africa

  Inspections contribute to blood safety and effectiveness Blood establishments do not only collect blood from donors, they often also have the license to further process the blood into the components needed for therapy. For this processes and manufacturing, blood establishments must comply with requirements – for example, for donor selection…

• The DQA Team Visits the National Drug Agency in Zimbabwe

  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…

• GHPP CPA Network Meeting in Zimbabwe

  The meeting of the GHPP CPA project partners took place at the African Institute of Biomedical Science and Technology (AiBST). After an introduction by the founder and director of AiBST, Prof. Collen Masimirembwa, on the current situation of pharmacogenomics in Africa and already existing global scientific collaborations, the BfArM and…

• Successful Start of the PharmTrain-CoronaGlobal Project: “We like to Share Experiences and Learn from each other”

  Due to current COVID-19 related travel restrictions, the kickoff workshop of the PharmTrain-CoronaGlobal (PT-CoronaGlobal) project took place as an online event from 27 September to 29 September 2021. In collaboration with the Southern African Development Community (SADC) and the African Union Development Agency (AUDA-NEPAD), the project aims to strengthen the…