Medicine, Technologies and Pharmaceutical Services
2019 - 2024 | Management Sciences for Health | $10 Million Funding
OVERVIEW
USAID’s Medicine, Technologies, and Pharmaceutical Services ensures sustainable access to and appropriate use of safe, effective, quality-assured, and affordable medicines, medical products and related pharmaceutical services through strengthening national and subnational pharmaceutical regulatory authorities.
HIGHLIGHT
USAID’s Medicine, Technologies, and Pharmaceutical Services is improving the maturity of Nepal’s regulatory authority to achieve international standards. The activity is achieving this by revising pharmaceutical operating procedures, developing integrated management systems, and building regulatory capacity.
USAID Partners with the Government of Nepal to Increase Quality Medicine:
USAID partners with the government to increase quality and affordable medicines in a sustainable way. Working in close collaboration with the Ministry of Health and Population and the Department of Drug Administration (DDA), USAID bolsters medical regulation, management, ordering and prescribing. MTaPs provides technical assistance to DDA, its sub-national structures, and diverse stakeholders, which includes private and public sector health facilities, wholesalers, importers, manufacturers, and pharmacies, to strengthen the product regulatory system in Nepal. USAID is also building DDA staff capacity in various regulatory functions that include registration, management, inspection, medicine registration, licensing, and medicines and medical product use. This has contributed to sustained and equitable access to quality assured and affordable medicines in Nepal.
USAID Demonstrates Results in Improved Information Management Systems:
USAID is assisting DDA to become more efficient in data generation and the use of evidence based planning. This assistance is being accomplished through technical support in adapting the information management system, Pharmadex, which is designed to meet the needs of Nepal’s regulatory authority, and by building the capacity of DDA staff to use the system.
USAID is Supporting the Government of Nepal to Revise Existing Law:
USAID, in coordination with DDA, is improving private sector medicine regulation and bringing cosmetics and medical equipment regulation under DDA’s responsibility. Approval of this revised law is expected to further advance Nepal’s medicine regulatory authority towards meeting international standards.
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