International Standards & Practice Guidelines (IS&Gs)

1. Essential medicines and health products programs
   —WHO Essential Medicines and Health Products (EMP) Department
   
2. Prequalification topics
   —Prequalification of Medicines Programme
   —Prequalification of equipment and devices
   
3. WHO Essential medicines topics
   —WHO Model Lists of Essential Medicines Website
   —WHO Drug Information
   —Essential medicines for children
   
4. Essential medicines selection program BPGHM Note: WHO collaborating (and initiating) partners for establishing IS&Gs in this area were Caritas Internationalis and the Churches’ Action for Health of the World Council of Churches.
   —WHO Guidelines for medicine donations
   —To give is better than to receive: compliance with WHO guidelines for drug donations during 2000–2008
   
5. Pharmaceutical products topics
   
6. Immunization, Vaccines and Biologicals
   —Immunization standards
   —Biologicals
   
7. Medical devices topics
   —Donation of medical equipment
   
8. Public health, innovation, intellectual property and trade
   
9. Diagnostic techniques and procedures topics
   
10. Health technology assessment
    
11. Cost effectiveness and strategic planning
    
12. Contracting and performance incentives
    
13. UN Commission on Life-Saving Commodities for Women and Children 2012

Missions Specific Best Practices Documents

(Demonstrate Compliance with International Standards & Guidelines)

I. FAITH-BASED ORGANIZATION (FBO) OPEN-ACCESS DOCUMENTS:
A. Best Practices in Global Health Missions (BPGHM)
—Medicine Donations
B. Contact Publication of the World Council of Churches (WCC) and former Christian Medical Commission (CMC). Includes numerous articles demonstrating FBO work in the establishment as well as promotion of IS&Gs.
—FBOs on a mission: 30 years of supporting pharmaceutical services
—Essential medicines in primary health care
—Making access to essential medicines possible

II. SECULAR OPEN-ACCESS DOCUMENTS:
A. The Lancet Global Health Global Health Commissions:
—Essential Medicines 2016
—Technologies for Global Health 2012

B . New England Journal of Medicine Global Health See especially:
—Time for a Model List of Essential Diagnostics 2016
—New Diagnostics for Common Childhood Infections 2014
—Global Health — The Gates–Buffett Effect 2006

C. Vaccines:
—A World Free of Polio — The Final Steps 2016
—Go Big and Go Fast — Vaccine Refusal and Disease Eradication 2013
—Global Health: Designing Tomorrow’s Vaccines 2013

D. Partnership for Quality Medical Donations (PQMD) Website
—PQMD Guidelines for Quality Medical Donations 2018

E. Biomed Central-Journal of Pharmaceutical Policy and Practice
—Improvements for international medicine donations: a review of the World Health Organization Guidelines for Medicine Donations, 3rd edition

F. National Academy of Medicine
—Access to Medical Devices in Low-Income Countries: Addressing Sustainability Challenges in Medical Device Donations.