Global Health
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.
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.
Quality Medicines for Malaria
Safe, Quality Medicines Campaign Launch
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
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.
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.
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.