About
The Interagency Pharmaceutical Group (IPC) was established more than 25 years ago on the initiative of the Swedish Government to address the need for better collaboration amongst development partners as a means of improving access to and use of safe, effective, quality assured medicines.
IPC includes senior pharmaceutical advisers from UN agencies and from other agencies in official relations with WHO. Members meet regularly, with bi-annual in-person meetings, to share information on respective agencies’ programmes, achievements and challenges in medicines policy. More specifically, to:
explore areas of common interest and synergies for collaboration;
coordinate the underlying pharmaceutical policies of technical advice to countries; and
plan and coordinate the preparation of interagency statements and technical documents
Collaboration amongst the different agencies has led a better exchange of information, more consistency in the technical advice given and to improve use and access to resources across partners. There are a number of interagency guidance documents published and implemented through the collaboration amongst the members of this group.
WHO and IPC Partners Publications & Resources
Ensuring the availability of quality-assured oxytocin at all assisted births is crucial to save women’s lives. The World Health Organization, United...
Guidelines for medicine donations, revised 2010
This 3rd edition of Guidelines for medicine donations has been developed by the World Health Organization (WHO) in cooperation with major international...
These interagency disposal guidelines are based on a report on the safe disposal of unwanted and unusable drugs in Mostar, which had accumulated during...
Interagency List of Priority Medical Devices for Essential Interventions for Reproductive, Maternal,...
The objective of this project was to list the medical devices required to provide the essential reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health interventions...
The interagency emergency health kit 2011 : medicines and medical devices for 10,000 people for approximately...
UN agencies and international and nongovernmental organizations are increasingly called upon to respond to large‐scale emergencies to prevent and manage...