General Resources
These resources relate to the issues that MeTA is concerned with, both internally and externally produced. Clicking on one of the links may take you away from the MeTA website, to the source of that information.
Distributing medicine worldwide
Panel considers McGill’s collaborative role in global accessibility initiatives
Pharma manufacturers in Ghana
Calls on the Government to adopt measures to develop the capacity of local pharma companies and help improve access to medicines.
Transparency, disclosure and sunshine: the global push for stakeholder accountability
Pharmaceutical and medical device companies are being challenged to explain critical components of their business model
New medicines programme to improve medicine quality
Growing threat of substandard and counterfeit medicines in developing countries addressed by new USAID-USP cooperative agreement
Ghanaian civil society wakes up to the threat of fake medicines
A new partnership focuses on patient-centred regulation and policymaking to address medicine and health care access and quality issues in Ghana.
Africa: text messages highlight drug stock-outs
Stop the Stock-Outs campaign activists in Kenya, Malawi, Uganda and Zambia use text messaging to report stock-outs of essential medicines - IRIN
Essential Medicines Monitor - WHO
WHO has re-launched Essential Drugs Monitor as an electronic newsletter, offering an international perspective on medicines issues.
Improving management of childhood malaria in Nigeria and Uganda by improving practices of patent medicine vendors
A description of exploratory models being used in Nigeria and Uganda to improve the practices of patent medicine vendors in relation to child survival.
Africa: text messages highlight drug stock-outs
Stop the Stock-Outs campaign activists in Kenya, Malawi, Uganda and Zambia use text messaging to report stock-outs of essential medicines - IRIN
Medicines Transparency Alliance represented in FIP Congress
MeTA and International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP) organise joint workshop on transparency in pharmacy practice