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…
Prior to the workshop, a survey was conducted with all GHPP projects and partners from Africa, Europe and South-East Asia. In order to be able to make recommendations for the continuation of the GHPP projects, data was collected on the use of online tools and their impact on the working…
GHPP CPA supports efforts of African researchers and clinicians in the prudent use of antimicrobial drugs in low- and middle- income countries (LMICs). These countries have the highest rates of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) driven by high rates of antimicrobial utilisation. Pharmacogenomics (PGx) and Precision Medicine are emerging approaches to combat…
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…
Onsite Workshop The two-day workshop was the highlight of the one-year collaboration between the TWG comprising eleven national medicines regulatory authorities (NMRAs) of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region and the PharmTrain-CoronaGlobal team. The major goal of the meeting was the completion of the regional framework for an Emergency…
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…
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…
The objectives of the survey were: To collect information on the use of online tools for communication and project work before and during the pandemic To capture experiences of users with online tools, as well as advantages and challenges in the implementation of project activities using online tools To assess…