In our recent publication, Concept Foundation reports on the regulatory standards and processes for over the counter (OTC) availability of hormonal contraception and drugs for medical abortion in Egypt, Jordan, Morocco, Lebanon and Tunisia. The main conclusions...
As part of the ACCELERATING INNOVATION FOR MOTHERS (AIM) project, in partnership with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, we published the report “Medicines for Pregnancy Specific Conditions: Research, Development and Market Analysis”. It provides the current...
In partnership with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Concept Foundation is engaging with key stakeholders in the pharmaceutical industry and public health field to assess the interest in establishing a Research Consortium including donors, manufacturers,...
In a landmark ruling, a restrictive abortion law that had been in place since 1921 was overturned by the Argentinian upper senate on 30th December 2020, in favour of legalising abortion up to 14 weeks. This new law comes two years after the senate narrowly voted...
Dr. Gordon Perkin, a Canadian physician who was a global health visionary ahead of his time, passed away on 21 August 2020. In the early years of his professional career, Dr. Perkin was engaged in leadership roles in the pharmaceutical industry, at the Planned...
Introducing a new series on intrapartum care in the journal Best Practice and Research in Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Concept CF Executive Director A. Metin Gülmezoglu discusses the importance of respectful care and how care during childbirth needs to be...
Since the beginning of the Millennium Development Goals period and stretching out to the current Sustainable Development Goals period, pharmaceutical research and development (R&D) in maternal health has not been a global public health priority. During this...
New beginnings @ConceptFNDN When I started working on the heat stable carbetocin project in 2012 at the Special Programme of Research on Human Reproduction (HRP), a public private partnership between WHO/HRP, Ferring Pharmaceuticals and MSD for Mothers I was...
Concept Foundation announces A. Metin Gülmezoglu as its new Executive Director
The International Planned Parenthood Federation today launched www.MedAb.org – the Medical Abortion Commodities Database, which houses information on the availability of quality misoprostol, mifepristone and co-packaged mifepristone and misoprostol (combipacks) at national level.