Asia Pacific Medicines Quality Assurance Information Sharing Mechanism

BES, with funding from WHO's Western Pacific Regional Office, has led the development of the Asia Pacific Medicines Quality Information Sharing Mechanism. This multi-country project aims to improve the quality of medicines for millions of patients in the region. The project commenced in 2016 with twelve signatory countries—Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, Tonga, Samoa, Palau, Fiji, Cook Islands, FSM, Marshall Islands, Narau, Niue and Kiribati. The project brings together product assessments (visual inspections or laboratory testing) from every participating country and share them to ensure that information on medicines quality is feeding into procurement decisions. The project also gathers information from suppliers to assist prequalification activity. The aim is to ensure that only the highest quality medicines enter participating countries, giving staff confidence and improving patient safety. The website is now live at

www.medqualityassurance.org

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BES’ headquarters are on Wurundjeri land near Merri Creek in Naarm (Melbourne), Australia. For thousands of years, Merri Creek provided Aboriginal people with many of the essentials of their day-to-day lives including water, timber and bark for building shelters, plant life for food and medicinal purposes, and animals for food.

We acknowledge the Wurundjeri people who are the Traditional Custodians of that Land. We would also like to pay respect to the Elders past, present and emerging of the Kulin Nation and extend that respect to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people across Australia.

Our acknowledgements extend to the traditional owners of the lands on which we work across the Pacific—including Tāmaki Makaurau (Auckland), where we recognise Māori as the Tangata Whenua of Aotearoa. BES commits to upholding their tino rangatiratanga over their lands, resources and taonga as described by te Tiriti o Waitangi.