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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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The handbook on supply chain management for HIV/AIDS commodities was written to assist program managers to plan and implement day–to-day management of all drugs and medical supplies for an HIV/AIDS program. Many of the suggested techniques described in this handbook are helpfu ... more
Training Manual
Guidelines
WHO Technical Report Series, No. 908, 2003, Annex 9. This guide is intended for those involved in the storage, transportation and distribution of pharmaceuticals. It describes the special measures considered appropriate for the storage and transportation of pharmaceuticals.
The main objectives of these guidelines are to:
1. contribute to the quality assurance of medicinal plant materials used as the source for herbal medicines to improve the quality, safety and efficacy of finished herbal products; 2. guide the formulation of national and/or regional GACP guideli ... more
Its main objectives are: to explain the educational approach underlying the Guide; to explain how to teach pharmacotherapy with the Guide; to give practical advice on how to assess the students, the teachers and the course; and to assist in mobilizing support for problem-based pharmacotherapy teachi ... more
SLe concept des médicaments essentiels a été utilisé pour la première fois par l'Organisation Mondiale de la Santé (OMS) dans les années 70 pour permettre aux Etats membres de faire face à la prolifération des médicaments sur le marché en tirant un meilleur rapport coût/efficacité des r ... more
A practical manual to good prescription of medicines in Romanian language. - Summary: Aceasta carte se adreseaza in primul rând studentilor la medicina. Ea ofera un ghid în procesul de prescriere rationala a medicamentelor, împreuna cu numeroase exemple ilustrative. Cartea îl ajuta pe cititor sa ... more

Pocket Guide to Managing Contraceptive Supplies

CDC Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) (2000) C_CDC
The Pocket Guide to Managing Contraceptive Supplies addresses one of the most important components of any program that provides family planning services—the logistics system that manages the delivery, quality, and storage of contraceptive supplies. These supplies are essential; without them, f ... more
• 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
This document introduces four strategic objectives and twelve operational principles for good pharmaceutical procurement. These objectives and principles have been developed and endorsed by the Interagency Pharmaceutical Coordination Group (IPC), involving the pharmaceutical advisers of the United ... more
These guidelines are aimed to provide guidance to Member States in developing their own national measures to combat counterfeiting of medicines. The guidelines include: an overview of the problems and factors concerning the counterfeiting of medicines; important steps to be followed in developing na ... more
Le présent guide est destiné à orienter les États Membres dans l'élaboration des mesures nationales pour combattre les médicaments contrefaits. Le guide contient: un apercu général du problème et des facteurs qui favorisent la contrefacon des médicaments; une description des étapes à sui ... more
This Teacher’s Guide accompanies the WHO publication Management of wastes from health-care activities . It provides teaching materials and recommendations for a three day training course, designed mainly for managers of health-care establishments, public health professionals and policy makers