Un Millennium Development Library: Prescription for Healthy Development: Increasing Access to Medicines

ISBN-13: 9781138471832 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 192 str.

Un Millennium Project

Opis

A report that lays out the recommendations of the UN Millennium Project Task Force 5 Working Group on Access to Essential Medicine.

Spis treści

Foreword -- Working group members -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Millennium Development Goals -- Executive summary -- 1 The problem -- Definition of access to essential medicines -- Overarching barriers -- Context -- Overview of major actors -- 2 Overcoming barriers to access -- Innovation -- Production -- Financing -- Prices and affordability -- Intellectual property protection -- Regional trade agreements, TRIPS-Plus, and access to medicines Data exclusivity and evergreening -- Procurement -- Regulation -- Taxation -- Distribution -- Competition -- Medicines donations -- Prescribing and dispensing -- Use of medicines in the home -- 3 Some preconditions for success -- Global preconditions -- National preconditions -- 4 Summary of recommendations and concluding remarks -- General principles -- Improving the availability of medicines -- Increasing the affordability of medicines -- Promoting the appropriate use of medicines -- Crosscutting issues -- Concluding remarks -- Appendix Access to medicines in Uganda: intersections with poverty -- Appendix Statement of dissent by representatives of the research-based pharmaceutical industry -- Appendix Summary of recommendations -- Notes -- References.

O autorze

UN Millennium Project