COVID-19 response
- A call to boost African manufacturing for COVID-19 and other vaccines (Devex Opinion)
- Africa-led solutions to expedite access to COVID-19 vaccines (Devex Opinion)
- Accelerating the rollout of COVID-19 vaccines: A how-to guide for national regulatory authorities in low- and middle-income countries
- The COVID catalyst: Innovating across sectors for improved access to vaccines (Devex World)
- Applying lessons from Ebola to the COVID-19 pandemic: Strengthening African health systems while scaling up testing
- Scaling up testing for COVID-19 in Africa: Responding to the pandemic in ways that strengthen health systems (African Journal of Laboratory Medicine)
- Webinar: Robust regulatory systems: A critical enabler of local pharmaceutical development in Africa (Africa Pharma Conference)
- Webinar: How technology transfer can advance local production to improve access of quality-assured medical products in the time of COVID-19 (Africa Pharma Conference)
- Scaling Up African Pharmaceutical Manufacturing in a Time of COVID-19 (Council on Foreign Relations)
- COVID-19: USP offers guidance on strategic response model to African Regulatory Authorities (African Leadership Magazine)
- Low- and middle-income countries struggle with access to essential medicines (SupplyChainBrain.com)
Universal health coverage
- Importance of medicine quality in achieving universal health coverage (PLOS ONE)
- Integrating Medicines Quality Assurance into Universal Health Coverage Programming: A Path to Increasing Efficiency, Access, and Coverage
- Opinion: The hidden drain on universal health coverage gains and health care budgets (Devex)
Antimicrobial resistance
- USP CDC AMR challenge commitment
- Scientific American highlights importance of medicine quality to fight antimicrobial resistance
Increasing the supply of quality-assured medicines
- An entire continent without medicine. Can sub-Saharan Africa produce its own drugs? (El Pais)
- New collaboration aims to reduce infant mortality in developing countries by making life-saving antiseptic more widely available
- The next frontier for the public health medicines market: Advancing local pharmaceutical production to improve access to essential medicines
Quality medicine and the problem of fake drugs
- USP and DFAT Partner to strengthen laboratories and improve medicines quality in Cambodia and Laos
- Advising Morocco’s National Control Laboratory to support its successful quality re-certification
- Ronald T. Piervincenzi statement of support for WHO reports on impact of poor-quality medicines
- World Health Assembly: Quality assured medicines key to global health (Quality Matters)
- USP's Gersande Chavez explains why regulatory system strengthening for medicines should be a central priority for the public health community (Devex)
- Counterfeit Drugs Are Putting the Whole World at Risk (Popular Science)
- Q&A: Tackling poor-quality medicines to prevent AMR (Devex)
- Opinion: Medicines shouldn't make people sicker — protecting people from poor-quality meds (Devex)
- Why training pharmaceutical regulatory professionals is key to improving health in Africa (Devex)
- Tackling the hidden cause of maternal mortality in Nigeria (Devex)
- The Case for Quality: Incentive's Investments in Access to Quality Medicines