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| Summary |
This report presents the recommendations of the WHO
Expert Committee responsible for updating the WHO
Model Lists of Essential Medicines. It contains a summary
of the Committee s considerations and justifications for
additions and changes to the Model Lists, including its
recommendations. Annexes to the main report include
the revised version of the WHO Model List of Essential
Medicines (17th edition) and the WHO Model List of
Essential Medicines for Children (3rd edition). In addition
there is a list of all the items on the Model Lists sorted
according to their Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical (ATC)
classification codes.
An additional annex covers the Report of a Supplementary
Meeting of the Expert Committee on the Selection and Use
of Essential Medicines which took place in Geneva in January
2010 to consider treatment of the pandemic influenza virus. |
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