Monitoring medicines is a resource challenge for small Caribbean states’, but a WHO-UMC workshop laid out the framework for a regional approach to drug safety and regulation.

UMC has entered a collaboration with Centre for Applied Philosophy of Science at the Norwegian University to investigate causation, evidence, and complexity in medicines safety.

One recent case involving a potentially dangerous fake antibiotic drug has brought to the fore systemic weaknesses that can only be remedied by group action.

Over two days, members of the WHO PIDM in Africa discussed all things pharmacovigilance in an effort to strengthen and develop their pharmacovigilance systems together.

The International Medication Safety Network has medication errors in its sights, developing and distributing safety practices that promote medication safety.

This year, the Spanish pharmacovigilance system turns 40. This time has seen much success, with plans on sustaining that success in the coming four decades.