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.
Survey of the quality of selected antimalarial medicines circulating in Madagascar, Senegal, and Uganda
First findings from a study by WHO and the Drug Quality and Information Program on the quality of key antimalarial medicines in Sub-Saharan African countries
Distributing medicine worldwide
Panel considers McGill’s collaborative role in global accessibility initiatives
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.
Essential Medicines Monitor - WHO
WHO has re-launched Essential Drugs Monitor as an electronic newsletter, offering an international perspective on medicines issues.
Keeping it real - combatting the spread of fake drugs in poor countries
International Policy Network report on protecting the world's poor from fake medicines (Also available in Spanish)
Technical checklist for pharmaceutical products
This checklist forms the appendix to the Charter for the quality of medicines, vaccines, diagnostic products and small medical materials (see below) (also available in French)
Charter for the quality of vaccines, medicines, diagnostic products and small medical materials
A charter, which 20 Belgian stakeholders have signed up to, and which is targeted towards pharmaceutical companies and distributors (also available in French)
Access, quality, transparency and accountability in the health care market place in Uganda
Health care in Uganda in the context of research studies on health rights with a special focus on HIV/AIDS and human rights in sub-Saharan Africa
Off the agenda, counterfeits still draw attention at Health Assembly
Counterfeit medicines were left off this year's World Health Assembly agenda but still managed to have an impact.