Promoting the Quality of Medicines Plus (PQM+)

PQM's goal is to sustainably strengthen medical product quality assurance systems in LMICs.

PQM+ is designed to work across five interrelated and complementary objectives to facilitate increased technical leadership and global advocacy, collaboration with international partners, and provision of support to integrate and strengthen country medical product quality assurance systems.

To achieve this goal, the application of good governance principles to the legal, policy and regulatory functions must be strengthened; the capacity of country and regional institutions and stakeholders needs to be improved to support regular, in-country quality assurance activities; medical product quality assurance efforts need to be supported by optimized information systems and financial and human resources in both the public and private sectors; limited health resources must be generated, invested, and used efficiently; and evidence-based approaches that build on existing health systems and integrate current and future health sector goals and reforms must be developed and applied, advancing the global medical product quality assurance systems strengthening learning, policy, and operational agenda.