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Intercountry meeting on Good Governance for Medicines for phase I countries in the Eastern Mediterranean Region
Eastern Mediterranean Drug Regulatory Authorities Conference: towards regulatory cooperation, 5–8 May 2014
Technical training on good manufacturing practices, 2–6 December 2012
Good manufacturing practice compliance and inspections training, 25–29 November 2012
Good manufacturing practices inspection training, 16–20 September 2012
Good governance for medicines: Introductory training workshop on national transparency assessment, 17–19 June 2012
International pharmacovigilance training course, 21–29 May 2012
Technical committee on pharmaceutical manufacturing plan of Africa, 2–4 May 2012
First international conference on pharmacy education in the era of globalization, University of Nizwa, 24-26 January 2012
Eastern Mediterranean conference of drug regulatory authorities, December 2011
Consultation on conservation of medicinal plants, 15-18 October 2011
Training of trainers on pharmaceutical situation assessment survey, 26-30 September 2011
Technical training on documentation required for submission to the WHO’s prequalification of medicines programme, 20-23 June 2011
Workshop on improving transparency and accountability in the pharmaceutical sector, 13-15 December 2010
Technical workshop on the rational use of medicines, Muscat, Oman, 7–9 November 2010
New global mechanism to combat substandard/spurious/falselylabelled/falsified/counterfeit medical products
The third international conference on improving use of medicines, 10–14 April 2011
WHO Good Governance For Medicines meeting, 5–8 April 2011
Sixth consultative meeting on UN prequalification of medicines, diagnostics and vaccines, 4–5 April 2011
Assuring availability and accessibility of opioid medicines, 4–5 April 2011
Good Governance for Medicines Programme, 2–3 March 2011
Workshop on access to opioid medication in Europe, 25–26 February 2011
Good Governance for Medicines phase 1 training package for Arabic-speaking countries, 25-27 July 2011
Fouteenth international conference of drug regulatory authorities, 30 November–3 December 2010
Assuring availability and accessibility of opioid medicines, Marrakesh, Morocco, 6–8 December 2010
WHO Prequalification Programme at DUPHAT, 22–24 March 2011
WHO prequalification programme workshop, 11–13 October 2010

Featured publications

Measuring_transparency_to_improve_good_governance_in_the_public_pharmaceutical_sector_in_PakistanMeasuring transparency to improve good governance in the public pharmaceutical sector in Pakistan

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Information resources

Pharmaceutical sector country profiles data and reports

Drug alerts

10 facts on essential medicines

Medicines topic index

Statistics and figures

Regional Health Observatory

Average pharmaceutical expenditure: US$ 1141 million

Average pharmaceutical expenditure per capita: US$ 57 

Average density of pharmacists: 5.02 per 10 000 population

Average number of licensed pharmaceutical manufacturers: 52

Average number of registered pharmaceutical products: 7529

 

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