WHO Launches Twin-Track Procedure To Speed Access To Health Products

But the new “e-portal” for prequalification applications is delayed.

A procedure used to accelerate the approval of COVID-19 products during the pandemic is to be applied to all medicines using “synchronized and parallel, but otherwise entirely independent, processes,” the World Health Organization says.

Two sets of railroad tracks run straight and parallel to a vanishing point on the horizon with green trees along side.
The WHO's parallel-track procedure should speed up medicines access • Source: Shutterstock

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