PQM+ Publications and Resources

From guidance documents and technical reports to fact sheets and success stories, our PQM+ publications offer insight into how to strengthen quality assurance across the medicine supply chain.

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Courses

• Foundations of good manufacturing practices (GMP)

Fact sheets

• USAID’s Promoting the Quality of Medicines Plus Program (PDF)
• Reducing maternal, newborn, and child mortality by increasing the supply of and access to quality-assured medicines (PDF) April 2021
• Optimizing resources for sustainable quality assurance systems (PDF) December 2019
• Improving the supply of quality medical products (PDF) December 2019
• PQM+ technical approach (PDF) December 2019
• Ensuring quality medical products in the fight against malaria (PDF) December 2019
• Investing in workforce development (PDF) December 2019
• Using data analytics to improve access to quality medical products (PDF) December 2019
• Strengthening pharmaceutical governance for improved medical product quality (PDF) December 2019
• Supporting regional harmonization for timely access to quality medical products (PDF) December 2019

Brochures

• Protecting people from poor quality medicines (PDF) 2019

Webinars

• Empowering countries to pivot and implement new regulatory tactics to ensure quality medical products during the COVID-19 pandemic (PDF) November 2021
• Unpacking medical product regulatory systems (PDF) November 2020

Reports

• Harmonizing standards for regulatory information management systems (RIMS) November 2022
• PQM+ year 2 annual report (PDF) October 2021
• PQM+ year 1 annual report (PDF) 2020
• PQM final program report (PDF) 2020
• Risk-based post-marketing surveillance of medicines: Implementation resources for low- and middle-income countries (PDF, EN, ES) October 2021
• Inventory of technical resources (PDF) October 2019

Newsletters

• Sept 2022
• July 2022
• March 2022
• Dec 2021
• August 2021 (PDF)
• May 2021 (PDF)
• Jan 2021 (PDF)
• Sept 2020 (PDF)

Guidance documents

• A proposed model to build capacity for emergency use authorization for vaccines (PDF) November 2021
• A proposed model to build capacity for emergency use authorization for diagnostics (PDF) November 2021
• Guidance document for developing and implementing a risk-based PMS for maternal, neonatal, and child health products (PDF) (EN, FR) February 2021
• Guidance on development, manufacture of Chlorhexidine digluconate (7.1%) gel (PDF) June 2019

Job aids

• Chlorhexidine gel 7.1% job aid to assist with laboratory testing (PDF) (EN, FR) January 2021
• Chlorhexidine digluconate (7.1%) gel job aid to assist with dossier preparation (PDF) (EN, FR) January 2021
• Oxytocin injection job aid to assist with dossier preparation (PDF) (EN, FR) January 2021
• Oxytocin injection job aid to assist with laboratory testing (PDF) (EN, FR) January 2021
• Amoxicillin job aid to assist with dossier preparation (PDF) (EN, FR) November 2020
• Amoxicillin job aid to assist with laboratory testing (PDF) (EN, FR) November 2020

Success stories

• Ghana FDA uses risk-based surveillance to help ensure quality of medical products September 2022
• Strengthening Pakistan’s public diagnostic labs to respond to COVID-19 August 2022
• Pakistan expands local manufacture of COVID-19 medical products with support from USAID’S PQM+ Program July 2022
• Pakistan begins to manufacture, export quality-assured personal protective equipment to fight COVID-19 May 2022
• Pakistan establishes first public sector lab to test quality of personal protective equipment May 2022
• Stronger medical product quality assurance systems respond during the COVID-19 pandemic February 2022
• USAID launches quality club in Uzbekistan December 2021
• WHO prequalifies Central Asia’s first medicines quality control lab November 2021
• Ensuring Kazakhstan’s uninterrupted access to safe medicines September 2021
• Ensuring quality medical products in Mali July 2021
• Building confidence and production of better medicines November 2020
• Reducing the risk of HIV transmission in Ethiopia July 2019
• Saving newborn lives with quality-assured scaled up chlorhexidine

Press releases

• USAID provides $7.1 million to USP to build trust in the supply of vaccines through the Promoting the Quality of Medicines Plus (PQM+) Program August 2022
• Global health experts launch new USAID program to strengthen medical product quality assurance systems in LMICs 2019

Journal articles

• African Medicines Agency to be established October 2021