Sub-Saharan Africa

USP's activities in Sub-Saharan Africa primarily occur through the USAID–supported Promoting the Quality of Medicines (PQM) program and USP's Technical Assistance Program (TAP).

Collaborations

PQM

Through PQM, USP is able to work in the region with governments, manufacturers, and other international public health organizations to help improve medicine quality by focusing on post-marketing surveillance of USAID-designated essential medicines, strengthening QA/QC systems, establishing Medicine Quality Monitoring, and providing technical training.

• View recent PQM achievements in Sub-Saharan Africa

TAP

In 2011, Kenya, Ethiopia, Senegal, Sierra Leone, and Ghana agreed to participate in USP's pilot TAP program. TAP involves the donation of reference standards and documentary standards to drug control laboratories that are less able to afford them to help increase the labs' abilities to produce quality data.

Visiting Delegations

• Officials from Ethiopia's Food, Medicine, and Health Care Administration Control Authority visited USP headquarters in 2011.
• USP hosted a visiting scientist from Ghana's regulatory agency in 2011.

Additional Efforts

• USP established an office in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia in 2011 to aid in its PQM Program.
• USP established a distributor agreement in South Africa to support global needs for Reference Standards and USP documentary standards.

Events

• USP has held Pharmacopeial Education courses in South Africa. View current online and classroom offerings.
• USP participated in a South African conclave on drug product performance topics.

Convention & Volunteer Representation

These Sub-Saharan Africa countries have current members and/or observers to the U.S. Pharmacopeial Convention, and/or citizens who serve as USP Expert Volunteers. [KEY: M–Members, O–Observers, EV–Expert Volunteers]