In April, PQMD held a three-day Forum on Global Aid and Access for Health in London. Bernd Pastors, our Spokesman of the Board, and Eva Greitemann, working in Partner Development, represented action medeor at this event.
action medeor has been focusing on the improvement of drug availability and quality in East Africa for many years. On behalf of the East African Community (EAC), action medeor now holds several workshops with local inspection authorities and representatives from the pharmaceutical industry in Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda.
Since the early months of 2017, we face a famine in many countries like Somalia, South Soudan, Nigeria and Yemen. Due to El Niño-induced weather patterns and conflicts food insecurity intensified in these countries. People suffer from drought or had to flee, so the occurrence of hunger and malnutrition worsened.
For 39 years, the German Medical Aid Organization action medeor and the leprosy surgeon Dr. Remy Rousselot have joined a close partnership.
With each passing day, the situation worsens in Yemen: Currently, nearly 19 million Yemenites are in desperate need of assistance, at least three million children suffer from malnutrition.
action medeor sends two Emergency Health Kits to Northern Iraq to support the medical care of the refugees.
We got good news from our partner Don Bosco: The shipment with medicines and medical supplies from action medeor has arrived safely in Gumbo.
This week, the first International action medeor Conference took place at action medeor.
Many patients benefit from medicines which belong to the class of glucocorticoids. For diseases involving inflammatory processes, glucocorticoids are very effective to alleviate symptoms and thereby improve the quality of life.
We are proud to announce that action medeor is now part of the “Partnership for Quality Medical Donations” (PQMD). This February, we became the 39th member of the global alliance.
