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Raffaella Ravinetto
Pharmacy
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Open AccessThe response to substandard and falsified medical products in francophone sub-Saharan African countries: weaknesses and opportunities
Assuring the quality of medical products manufactured, imported or distributed in francophone sub-Saharan Africa remains a challenge, despite positive signals like the growing engagement in the benchmarking of...
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Global Evidence on Assuring Quality of Medicines
Quality of medicine is a major challenge, especially in low- and middle-income countries. The factors contributing include weak regulatory capacity, the capacity of the pharmaceutical industry, supply chain is...
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Reference Work Entry In depth
Global Evidence on Assuring Quality of Medicines
Quality of medicine is a major challenge, especially in low- and middle-income countries. The factors contributing include weak regulatory capacity, the capacity of the pharmaceutical industry, supply chain is...
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Open AccessStudy on identification, assay and organoleptic quality of veterinary medicines in Ethiopia
Medicines of poor quality are currently prevailing problems undermining the quality of health care services in veterinary and human medicine. In this study, physico-chemical quality of veterinary medicines was...
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Open AccessTraining on adequate use of opioid analgesics in West and Central Africa: a neglected step on the way to access to essential medicines?
Alleviating acute and chronic pain is a moral imperative for health professionals and health systems, and it requires adequate access to and use of essential opioid analgesics. However, this is still a neglect...
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Open AccessAssessments of the quality systems of pharmaceutical distributors: a remote approach to be applied in times of COVID-19 and beyond
Adequate quality systems throughout pharmaceutical supply chains are crucial to protect individuals and communities from substandard and falsified medical products. Thus, pharmaceutical distributors are regula...
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Open AccessThe importance of visual inspection in national quality assurance systems for medicines
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Open AccessThe Belgian commitment to pharmaceutical quality: a model policy to improve quality assurance of medicines available through humanitarian and development programs
Today, a combination of globalization of pharmaceutical production, lack of regulatory harmonization, and weakness of Medicines Regulatory Authorities, creates the “perfect conditions” for poor-quality medicin...
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Open AccessFighting poor-quality medicines in low- and middle-income countries: the importance of advocacy and pedagogy
The globalization of pharmaceutical production has not been accompanied by a strengthening and harmonization of the regulatory systems worldwide. Thus, the global market is characterized today by a situation o...
