Hosted by IDDO-MORU-CGHR’s Medicine Quality Research Group (MQRG), participants were mainly from research and public health groups researching substandard and falsified (SF) medical products and advocating for access to quality medicines.
In the morning 14 participants presented their work and the afternoon sessions were dedicated to informal discussions on different themes of interest, such as screening technologies to identify SF medicines (including DEG/EG contaminations in paediatric syrups – visit the The DEG-EG Project pages for more information of the MQRG work on this), the methodology for conducting medicine quality surveys with a focus on conflict areas, and how to raise awareness and engage with various communities around the issues.
Attendees greatly encouraged more such meetings. One participant said ‘There is a wonderful culture around these meetings’ and another added ‘Delighted to see this wide group continue to build momentum to another conference’.
Read more about MQRG and its work.
- Thank you Celine Caillet for text and photo