E-DRUG: Medicine Quality Monitoring Globe release with COVID-19 update
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Dear Colleagues,
A note to let you know that we have updated the Medicine Quality Monitoring Globe with filters for SF medical products for COVID-19 in the search bar at the top of the page - for: COVID trial medicines, Personal Protective Equipment, Ventilators and PEEP and COVID diagnostics:
The Globe is a free-to-use online tool that maps news reports worldwide of substandard and falsified (SF) medical products. Its database is continually updated and includes medicines, vaccines, biologics and diagnostics and now has a COVID-19 search function to include reports of COVID-19 related SF medical products, including masks, diagnostic tests, medicines and vaccines. Users can tailor their searches filtering by key words, time-periods, locations and language, with on-screen results available in English, Spanish, Mandarin and French.
With the recent tragic emergence of COVID-19, there has been a growing number of reports of falsified masks, diagnostic tests, medicines and vaccines, and there has never been a more urgent need for a shared global tool to track SF medical products.
There are important caveats when interpreting these data. Please note in particular our takedown policy and that the information in the Globe usually will not have scientific confirmation. Therefore, please interpret the information in the Globe with the greatest caution. They are early warning of potential problems. The system is being fine-tuned and any comments welcome.
Please write to
medicinequality@iddo.org
best wishes,
Paul Newton & Caroline Caillet
Medicine Quality Research Group, Infectious Diseases Data Observatory (IDDO) & Mahidol Oxford Research Unit (MORU), Centre for Tropical Medicine & Global Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
Paul Newton <Paul.Newton@tropmedres.ac>