POPS for injection safety third meeting report

Overview

A first meeting of the POPS IS initiative, in September 2016, hosted by the IPC global unit at WHO headquarters, was attended by manufacturers from 14 different companies. The purpose of this follow-up meeting, in May 2017, was to formally inaugurate the POPS Injection Safety initiative, to seek industry input on its sustainability and also receive feedback from participants and experts on sustaining progress made in injection safety. There were 31 participants from 11 countries. In a separate meeting involving industry participants who had signed up to the initiative, collaboration, future projects and working style and during which POPS IS projects were discussed.