PQM+ Publications and Resources
From guidance documents and technical reports to fact sheets and success stories, our PQM+ publications offer insight into how to strengthen quality assurance across the medicine supply chain.
Spotlight publications
Course: Foundations of Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP)
Free online course that covers the essentials of Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) to ensure the quality of medical products.
Fact sheet: PQM+ strengthens quality assurance for medical products
PQM+ improves the quality of medical products used to prevent and treat diseases like malaria and tuberculosis, and improve maternal, newborn, and child health.
Guidance: Technology transfer of Chlorhexidine digluconate (7.1%) gel
Learn how to develop and manufacture quality-assured chlorhexidine digluconate (7.1%) gel for umbilical cord care.
More publications
Courses
Fact sheets
- USAID’s Promoting the Quality of Medicines Plus Program (PDF)
- Reducing maternal, newborn, and child mortality by increasing the supply of and access to quality-assured medicines (PDF) April 2021
- Optimizing resources for sustainable quality assurance systems (PDF) Dec 2019
- Improving the supply of quality medical products (PDF) Dec 2019
- PQM+ technical approach (PDF) Dec 2019
- Ensuring quality medical products in the fight against malaria (PDF) Dec 2019
- Investing in workforce development (PDF) Dec 2019
- Using data analytics to improve access to quality medical products (PDF) Dec 2019
- Strengthening pharmaceutical governance for improved medical product quality (PDF) Dec 2019
- Supporting regional harmonization for timely access to quality medical products (PDF) Dec 2019
Brochures
Webinars
- Empowering countries to pivot and implement new regulatory tactics to ensure quality medical products during the COVID-19 pandemic (PDF) Nov 2021
- Unpacking medical product regulatory systems (PDF) Nov 2020
Reports
- Harmonizing standards for regulatory information management systems (RIMS) Nov 2022
- PQM+ year 2 annual report (PDF) Oct 2021
- PQM+ year 1 annual report (PDF) 2020
- PQM final program report (PDF) 2020
- Risk-based post-marketing surveillance of medicines: Implementation resources for low- and middle-income countries (PDF, EN, ES) Oct 2021
- Inventory of technical resources (PDF) Oct 2019
Newsletters
- Sept 2022
- July 2022
- March 2022
- Dec 2021
- August 2021 (PDF)
- May 2021 (PDF)
- Jan 2021 (PDF)
- Sept 2020 (PDF)
Guidance documents
- A proposed model to build capacity for emergency use authorization for vaccines (PDF) Nov 2021
- A proposed model to build capacity for emergency use authorization for diagnostics (PDF) Nov 2021
- Guidance document for developing and implementing a risk-based PMS for maternal, neonatal, and child health products (PDF) (EN, FR) Feb 2021
- Guidance on development, manufacture of Chlorhexidine digluconate (7.1%) gel (PDF) June 2019
Job aids
- Chlorhexidine gel 7.1% job aid to assist with laboratory testing (PDF) (EN, FR) Jan 2021
- Chlorhexidine digluconate (7.1%) gel job aid to assist with dossier preparation (PDF) (EN, FR) Jan 2021
- Oxytocin injection job aid to assist with dossier preparation (PDF) (EN, FR) Jan 2021
- Oxytocin injection job aid to assist with laboratory testing (PDF) (EN, FR) Jan 2021
- Amoxicillin job aid to assist with dossier preparation (PDF) (EN, FR) Nov 2020
- Amoxicillin job aid to assist with laboratory testing (PDF) (EN, FR) Nov 2020
Success stories
- Ghana FDA uses risk-based surveillance to help ensure quality of medical products (Sept 2022)
- Strengthening Pakistan’s public diagnostic labs to respond to COVID-19 (Aug 2022)
- Pakistan expands local manufacture of COVID-19 medical products with support from USAID’S PQM+ Program (July 2022)
- Pakistan begins to manufacture, export quality-assured personal protective equipment to fight COVID-19 (May 2022)
- Pakistan establishes first public sector lab to test quality of personal protective equipment (May 2022)
- Stronger medical product quality assurance systems respond during the COVID-19 pandemic (Feb 2022)
- USAID launches quality club in Uzbekistan (Dec 2021)
- WHO prequalifies Central Asia’s first medicines quality control lab (Nov 2021)
- Ensuring Kazakhstan’s uninterrupted access to safe medicines (Sept 2021)
- Ensuring quality medical products in Mali (July 2021)
- Building confidence and production of better medicines (Nov 2020)
- Reducing the risk of HIV transmission in Ethiopia (July 2019)
- Saving newborn lives with quality-assured scaled up chlorhexidine
Press releases
- USAID provides $7.1 million to USP to build trust in the supply of vaccines through the Promoting the Quality of Medicines Plus (PQM+) Program (Aug 2022)
- Global health experts launch new USAID program to strengthen medical product quality assurance systems in LMICs (2019)
Journal articles
- African Medicines Agency to be established (Oct 2021)