THE International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP) has released a new report highlighting the importance of pharmacists in the medicines supply chain.
The pharmaceutical supply chain encompasses the full life cycle of a medicine, from raw material through to use by patients, with the report including nine country case studies as well as literature and survey data reviews to identify pharmacists as having expertise that is critical to supply chain integrity.
Inefficient pharmaceutical supply chains are partly to blame for a substantial proportion of the world still being without access to basic life-saving medicines, while the landscape is also challenged by substandard and falsified drugs leading FIP to examine the issue.
The report is available at fip.org.
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