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The PHARMACY TOOLBOX is a comprehensive knowledge repository to provide its users with practical, up-to-date information on medicines and good pharmaceutical practices. It collates basic documents on (essential) medicines, guidelines, rational use, access, and good quality of medicines. All health workers who prescribe, handle or dispense medicines find an electronic key pharmacy knowledge hub. 

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Bodeker, Gerard, Ong, Chi-Keong, Grundy, Chris, Burford, Gemma, Shein, Kin. et al. (‎2005)‎. WHO global atlas of traditional, complementary and alternative medicine. Kobe, Japa
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Locher, F.
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WHO Monographs On Selected Medicinal Plants - Volume 3

World Health Organization WHO (2007) C_WHO
• provide scientific information on the safety, efficacy, and quality control/ quality assurance of widely used medicinal plants, in order to facilitate their appropriate use in Member States; • provide models to assist Member States in developing their own mono- graphs or formularies for these... more
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MSF Médicaments Essentiels - Guide pratique d'utilisation 2022
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Médecins sans Frontières MSF (2022) C2
Guide pratique d’utilisation à l'usage des médecins, pharmaciens, infirmiers et auxiliaires de santé.
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WHO Monographs On Selected Medicinal Plants - Volume 4
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World Health Organization WHO (2009) C_WHO
• provide scientific information on the safety, efficacy, and quality control/ quality assurance of widely used medicinal plants, in order to facilitate their appropriate use in Member States; • provide models to assist Member States in developing their own mono- graphs or formularies for these... more
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WHO Monographs On Selected Medicinal Plants - Volume 2

World Health Organization WHO (2007) C_WHO
• provide scientific information on the safety, efficacy, and quality control/ quality assurance of widely used medicinal plants, in order to facilitate their appropriate use in Member States; • provide models to assist Member States in developing their own mono- graphs or formularies for these... more
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MSF Essential Drugs - Practical Guidelines 2022
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Médecins sans Frontières MSF Médecins sans Frontières (2022) C2
Practical guide intended for physicians, pharmacists, nurses and medical auxiliaries. This guide is not a dictionary of pharmacological agents. It is a practical manual intended for health professionals, physicians, pharmacists, nurses and health auxiliaries invoved in curative care and drug managem... more
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National strategy and plan of action for pharmaceutical manufacturing development in Ethiopia (2015–2025)

Ministry of Health and Ministry of Industry, Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia (2015) C1
Strategy plan
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2022 Global Atlas of Medical Devices

Velazquez Berumen, A.; S. Groth, G. Forte et al. World Health Organisation (WHO) (2022) C_WHO
The country profiles incorporate facts indicating the national status of medical devices in areas such as: medical device policies, regulations, incorporation, lists, inventories, nomenclature, health technology assessment, management, and biomedical engineering resources. This publication is int... more
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Liste nationale des médicaments et autres produits pharmaceutiques essentiels, décembre 2017 - République du Cameroun

Organisation Mondiale de la Santé OMS (2017) C_WHO
Septième (7ème) édition de la liste nationale des médicaments essentiels, cinquiême (5ème) édition de la liste nationale des produits pharmaceutiques d'urgence, quatrième (4ème) édition de la liste nationale des réactifs essentiels pour l'analyses de biologie médicale. La présente é... more
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Liste Nationale des Médicaments et Consommables Medicaux Essentiels Burkina Faso

Ministere de la Sante, Burkina Faso (2020) C_WHO
Liste nationale
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Nepal: National List of Essential Medicines, 2021
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World Health Organisation (WHO) (2021) C_WHO
6th edition, The NLEM 2021 contains 398 drugs molecules in different therapeutic categories.
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Standard treatment guidelines, essential medicines list , essentia laboratory supplies for Zambia
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Ministry of Health, Zambia (2020) C1
5th edition
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Liste Nationale des Médicaments et Produits Essentiels (LNMPE), Révision 2018 - Sénégal
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Ministere de la Sante et de la Prevention, Senegal (2018) C1
Certes, au Sénégal la révision périodique tous les deux ans de la Liste Nationale des Médicaments et Produits Essentiels (LNMPE) est une tradition depuis 1990. La présente liste de Médicaments et Produits Essentiels par niveaux de soins est la septième édition. Cette sélection soigneuse... more
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Liste Nationale des Médicaments essentiels et dispositifs médicaux de la RCA 2017

Organisation Mondiale de la Santé OMS (2017) C_WHO
Essential Medicines and Health Products Information Portal
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Pharmaceutical Compounding - Nonsterile Preparations - Revision Bulletin

United States Pharmacopeial Convention (2014) CC
Revision Bulletin ESPNF
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Good pharmacopoeial practices: Chapter on monographs on herbal medicines

World Health Organization WHO (2018) C_WHO
Annex 7
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WHO guidance on testing of “suspect” falsified medicines

World Health Organization WHO (2018) C_WHO
Annex 5, WHO Technical Report Series 1010, 2018
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Global atlas of medical devices

World Health Organization WHO (2022) C_WHO
Resource platform. The Global Atlas of medical devices (GAMD) provides global, regional and country data on availability of: national policy on health technology regulation of medical devices health technology assessment national unit health technology management use of med... more
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Healthcare waste

USAID (2019) C1
Sector Environmental Guidelines, Full technical Update
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Optimiser la gestion des déchets et les réduire : les clés de la réussite en milieu hospitalier

Coeur du Hainaut (2021) CC
Depuis les années ‘80, la politique et les pratiques de gestion des déchets ont connu une évolution considérable, tant pour les ménages que pour les entreprises et le secteur public. Plus récemment, l’obligation de tri pour les entreprises est entrée en vigueur progressivement à partir ... more
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PAHO Revolving Fund Vaccine Prices for 2023

Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) (2023) C_WHO
PAHO Revolving Fund Vaccine Prices for 2023