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Graphic Online BY: Edward Acquah 30.5k Shares 705 The World Health Organisation (WHO) has commended Ghana for achieving Maturity Level 3 (ML3), a global regulatory benchmark set by the organisation. The WHO last year ranked Ghana’s Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) ML3 for its medicines regulatory system that ensured the safety, quality and efficacy of all medical products imported, manufactured or distributed in the country. The ML3 is the second highest in the four-tiered WHO classification of national medicines regulatory systems. Reference agency Addressing delegates at the virtual openin...

Covid shows the world it needs new rules to deal with pandemics Pharmaceutical companies must accept they will have to transfer knowhow and technology if the whole world is to get the vaccines it needs By Ellen ’t Hoen HomeFeatures Covid shows the world it needs new rules to deal with pandemics More than a year ago the World Health Organisation (WHO), with the support of 40 member states, established the Covid-19 Technology Access Pool (C-TAP). C-TAP offers a platform for the voluntary sharing of intellectual property (IP), including knowhow, technology, data, cell lines and whatever els...

UN United Nations : Director-General's opening remarks at the World Health Assembly - 24 May 2021 05/24/2021 | 08:57am EDT Send by mail : Message : Your Excellency Alain Berset, Federal Counsellor of Switzerland, Excellencies, distinguished colleagues and friends, Lucy Nyambura is a health promotion officer in Mombasa City, Kenya. When COVID-19 arrived last year, a strict lockdown was introduced, but it was met with strong resistance by the local community, who refused to be tested, isolated or treated. As she made her daily rounds, providing informati...

The resolution comes weeks after US President Joe Biden announced that his government would support the proposal at the WTO.

The United States neither can nor should abdicate a strong leadership role in global health. The question is how it leads.