// May 24, 2018
Poor quality medicines and drug resistance
Harvard professor and physician Ashish Jha describes how poor quality medicines create the perfect opportunity for superbugs.
Global Health
// January 04, 2019
Medicine Quality Must Be Assured, Not Assumed
When a problem puts millions of lives at risk, costs economies billions of dollars and undermines decades of hard-earned health progress, it deserves prompt and strategic attention. I’m describing the consequences of poor-quality medicines – a worldwide problem that deserves worldwide attention.
// May 24, 2018
Quality medicines and sub-Saharan Africa
Global health advocate Mirfin Moundu talks about the dangers of poor quality medicines and how they are a threat to many Africans in treating infectious diseases and non-communicable diseases.
// May 24, 2018
Quality Medicines for Malaria
Marie Lamy with Asia Pacific Leaders Malaria Alliance discusses how one country is tackling drug resistance in order to eradicate Malaria.
// May 23, 2018
Safe, Quality Medicines Campaign Launch
USP and partners announce a new campaign to raise awareness of the importance of quality medicines in improving people’s health.
// January 03, 2018
Protecting Medicines Quality in Africa: USP presents at 3rd Biennial Scientific Confe...
Countries throughout Africa are working to harmonize standards to make processes more efficient and help bring needed pharmaceuticals to market, while protecting medicines quality. Learn more
// January 02, 2018
Looking ahead in China
Looking ahead in China
There’s something about an anniversary that inspires me to look to the future as well as appreciate the past, especially at the start of a new year. As we mark the anniversary of the 10th year of USP-China, the future and the past offer a great deal to appreciate.
// December 18, 2017
True Impact: Helping Babies Thrive in Nigeria
In Nigeria, mothers frequently deliver their babies at home—only 36 percent deliver at health care facilities. Giving birth without the assistance of trained healthcare providers leaves babies vulnerable to infections, and some can be fatal.
// November 22, 2017
Compendium, compendia, compendial: Clearing up the mystery of these terms...
In conversations about the role of quality standards in public health, you might come across the words “compendia” and “compendial.” At USP, terms like “compendial approaches,” “compendial standards,” and “compendial tools” are part of our everyday vocabulary.
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