The A.P.P.A.® Project is the main activity of Aid Progress Pharmacist Agreement no profit association; the Project, started in 2005, is the result of the cooperation between the Pharmacy Faculty (TO) and local Pharmacists. The Project is in agreement with the International Health Cooperation principles and it complies both with Italian and guest Countries laws. Objectives:  realizing galenic lab in hospitals located in developing Countries (DC) with the aim of preparing medicinal products which comply with adequate quality requirements, first of all to fight the widespread phenomenon of counterfeit in DC;  customizing the dosages and pharmaceutical forms according to the actual needs of patients;  employing local staff, teaching them a “new job” in order to open suitable school;  minimizing the financial commitment necessary to prepare these medicines. The Project is structured in six phases, through which it is possible to obtain an effective and functional lab: from a preliminary study of local needs up to a constantly and accurate control of the prepared galenics by analysis in the laboratories of University of Turin. The pharmaceutical forms proposed are liquid, capsules, ointments and suppositories. The most important results showed that several Projects are going on:  Centre Médico-Chirurgical Maternité la Bethanie, Douala, Cameroon  Hospital Notre Dame des Apòtres, Garoua, Cameroon  Healt Center Le Bon Samaritain, N’djamena, Tchad  Hospital Heintsoa, Vohipeno, Madagascar  Dispensario Diocesano, Ihosy, Madagascar  Hospital Nossa Senhora da Paz, Cubal, Angola  A.M.E.N. Onlus center, Funda, Angola  Hospital Saint Damien, Tabarre, Haiti Each lab so far has reached a different state of evolution. All of them are growing day by day, helped by the constant support of all team A.P.P.A.®, whose purpose is the one of making them indipendent from both knowledges in handling galenics and economy in order to buy new raw materials using the gain of medicines sale.

A.P.P.A.® Project: an example of international health cooperation

BARATTA, Francesca;BRUSA, Paola
2014-01-01

Abstract

The A.P.P.A.® Project is the main activity of Aid Progress Pharmacist Agreement no profit association; the Project, started in 2005, is the result of the cooperation between the Pharmacy Faculty (TO) and local Pharmacists. The Project is in agreement with the International Health Cooperation principles and it complies both with Italian and guest Countries laws. Objectives:  realizing galenic lab in hospitals located in developing Countries (DC) with the aim of preparing medicinal products which comply with adequate quality requirements, first of all to fight the widespread phenomenon of counterfeit in DC;  customizing the dosages and pharmaceutical forms according to the actual needs of patients;  employing local staff, teaching them a “new job” in order to open suitable school;  minimizing the financial commitment necessary to prepare these medicines. The Project is structured in six phases, through which it is possible to obtain an effective and functional lab: from a preliminary study of local needs up to a constantly and accurate control of the prepared galenics by analysis in the laboratories of University of Turin. The pharmaceutical forms proposed are liquid, capsules, ointments and suppositories. The most important results showed that several Projects are going on:  Centre Médico-Chirurgical Maternité la Bethanie, Douala, Cameroon  Hospital Notre Dame des Apòtres, Garoua, Cameroon  Healt Center Le Bon Samaritain, N’djamena, Tchad  Hospital Heintsoa, Vohipeno, Madagascar  Dispensario Diocesano, Ihosy, Madagascar  Hospital Nossa Senhora da Paz, Cubal, Angola  A.M.E.N. Onlus center, Funda, Angola  Hospital Saint Damien, Tabarre, Haiti Each lab so far has reached a different state of evolution. All of them are growing day by day, helped by the constant support of all team A.P.P.A.®, whose purpose is the one of making them indipendent from both knowledges in handling galenics and economy in order to buy new raw materials using the gain of medicines sale.
2014
Imagining Cultures of Cooperation, III CUCS Congress
Torino
19-21 settembre 2013
Imagining Cultures of Cooperation - Proceedings of the III CUCS Congress, Turin 19-21 September 2013
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