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Medicine Access and Rational Use

Pricing

Title:	Access to Medicines Versus Access to Treatment: The Case of Type 1 Diabetes
Subjects:	Medicine Access and Rational Use > Financing Medicine Access and Rational Use > Pricing
Author:	Beran, David; McCabe, Ariane; Yudkin, J. S.
Year:	2008 Pages: 2
Publishers:	WHO Headquarters in Geneva
Regions:	Global

Title:	AFRO Essential Medicines - Price Indicator December 2003
Subjects:	Medicine Access and Rational Use > Pricing Medicine Access and Rational Use > Supply Management
Year:	2003 Pages: 100
Publishers:	WHO Country Office in Congo World Health Organization - Regional Office for Africa (WHO/AFRO)
Regions:	Africa (AFRO)
Countries:	Congo

Title:	AFRO Essential Medicines. Price Indicator, September 2007
Subjects:	Medicine Access and Rational Use > Pricing
Year:	2007 Pages: 81
Publishers:	World Health Organization - Regional Office for Africa (WHO/AFRO)
Regions:	Africa (AFRO)

Title:	The Availability and Affordability of Selected Essential Medicines for Chronic Diseases in Six Low- and Middle-income Countries
Subjects:	Medicine Access and Rational Use > Pricing
Author:	Cameron, Alexandra; Ewen, Margaret; Filipe, Jr Anthonio; Fukino, Keiko; Khatib, Oussama; Laing, Richard; Leowski, Jerzy; Mendis, Shanti
Year:	2007 Pages: 11
Publishers:	WHO Headquarters in Geneva
Regions:	Global; South-East Asia (SEARO)
Countries:	Malawi; Brazil; Pakistan; Bangladesh; Nepal; Sri Lanka

Title:	Consumption and Trade in Off-Patented Medicines, 2001. CMH Working Paper Series, Paper No. WG 4: 3 (Commission on Macroeconomics and Health - CMH)
Subjects:	Medicine Access and Rational Use > Financing Medicine Access and Rational Use > Pricing Medicine Access and Rational Use > Supply Management
Author:	Bale, Harvey E
Year:	2001 Pages: 29
Publishers:	WHO Headquarters in Geneva
Regions:	Global

Title:	Cost–Effectiveness of Artemisinin Combination Therapy for Uncomplicated Malaria in Children: Data from Papua New Guinea
Subjects:	Medicine Access and Rational Use > Financing Medicine Access and Rational Use > Pricing
Author:	Clarke, Philip M; Davis, Timothy ME; Davis, Wendy A; Davy, Carol; Karunajeewa, Harin A; Mueller, Ivo; Siba, Peter M
Year:	2011 Pages: 10
Publishers:	WHO Headquarters in Geneva
Countries:	Papua New Guinea

Title:	Differences in the Availability of Medicines for Chronic and Acute Conditions in the Public and Private Sectors of Developing Countries
Subjects:	Medicine Access and Rational Use > Pricing Medicine Access and Rational Use > Supply Management
Author:	Cameron, Alexandra; Ewen, Margaret; Laing, Richard; Leufkens, Hubert G; Mantel-Teeuwisse, Aukje K.; Roubos, Ilse
Year:	2011 Pages: 24
Publishers:	WHO Headquarters in Geneva
Regions:	Global

Title:	Direct Costs and Availability of Diabetes Medicines in Low-income and Middle-Income Countries
Subjects:	Medicine Access and Rational Use > Pricing
Author:	Volman, Birgit
Year:	2008 Pages: 99
Publishers:	WHO Collaborating Centre for Phamacoepidemiology and Pharmaceutical Policy Analysis (Utrecht, Netherlands) Health Action International (HAI)
Regions:	Global

Title:	Drugs and Money - Prices, Affordability and Cost Containment
Subjects:	Medicine Access and Rational Use > Financing Medicine Access and Rational Use > Pricing
Author:	de Joncheere, C.P.; Dukes, Maurice Nelson Graham; Haaijer-Ruskamp, Flora M; Rietveld, A. H
Year:	2003 Pages: 158
Publishers:	World Health Organization - Regional Office for Europe (WHO/EURO)
Regions:	Global

Title:	Essential Medicines Monitor. Issue 4, April 2010
Subjects:	Medicine Access and Rational Use > Pricing
Author:	Campos, Mônica Rodrigues; Du Bocage, Cláudia Santos Pinto; Dunn, Alison; Emmerick, Isabel Cristina Martins; Hartigan-Go, Kenneth; Lartey, Paul; Luiza, Vera Lucia; Miranda, Elaine Silva; Morries, Seru; Osorio-de-Castro, Claudia Garcia Serpa; Reis, André Luis de Almeida dos
Year:	2010 Pages: 6
Publishers:	WHO Headquarters in Geneva
Countries:	Brazil

Title:	Essential Medicines Monitor. Issue 5, August 2011
Subjects:	Medicine Information and Evidence for Policy > Information and Publications Medicine Access and Rational Use > Antimicrobial Drug Resistance Medicine Access and Rational Use > Pricing Medicine Access and Rational Use > Rational Use Medicine Access and Rational Use > Supply Management
Author:	Billo, Nils E.; Bissell, K.; Chen, Ning; Macé, Cécile; Sun, Jing; Yan, Qing; Zheng, Yingdong; Zhou, Liang; Zhou, Ying
Year:	2011 Pages: 10
Publishers:	WHO Headquarters in Geneva
Regions:	Global
Countries:	China

Title:	Global Comparative Pharmaceutical Expenditures with Related Reference Information - Health Economics and Drugs Series No. 003
Subjects:	Medicine Access and Rational Use > Financing Medicine Access and Rational Use > Pricing Medicine Access and Rational Use > Supply Management
Author:	Quick, Jonathan D; Tolentino, Ronnel B.
Year:	2000 Pages: 84
Publishers:	WHO Headquarters in Geneva
Regions:	Global

Title:	Global Strategies to Reduce the Price of Antiretroviral Medicines: Evidence from Transactional Databases
Subjects:	Medicine Access and Rational Use > Pricing
Author:	Fox, Matthew P; Kaplan, Warren; King, Alexis C; Lawrence, Danielle A; Leufkens, Hubert G; Waning, Brenda
Year:	2007 Pages: 9
Publishers:	WHO Headquarters in Geneva
Regions:	Global

Title:	Impact of the Economic Recession on the Pharmaceutical Sector
Subjects:	Medicine Access and Rational Use > Financing Medicine Access and Rational Use > Pricing
Author:	Buysse, I.M.
Year:	2010 Pages: 65
Publishers:	WHO Collaborating Centre for Phamacoepidemiology and Pharmaceutical Policy Analysis (Utrecht, Netherlands) WHO Headquarters in Geneva
Regions:	Global

Title:	Increasing Access to Diagnostics Through Technology Transfer and Local Production
Subjects:	Medicine Information and Evidence for Policy > Medicines Policy Medicine Access and Rational Use > Pricing Medicine Access and Rational Use > Supply Management
Author:	McNerney, Ruth; Peeling, Rosanna
Year:	2011 Pages: 72
Publishers:	WHO Headquarters in Geneva
Related documents:	Local Production for Access to Medical Products: Developing a Framework to Improve Public Health Local Production and Access to Medicines in Low- and Middle-income Countries: A Literature Review and Critical Analysis Local Production of Pharmaceuticals and Related Technology Transfer in Developing Countries: A Series of Case Studies by the UNCTAD Secretariat Trends in Local Production of Medicines and Related Technology Transfer Pharmaceutical Production and Related Technology Transfer: Landscape Report
Regions:	Global

Title:	Local Production and Access to Medicines in Low- and Middle-income Countries: A Literature Review and Critical Analysis
Subjects:	Medicine Information and Evidence for Policy > Medicines Policy Medicine Access and Rational Use > Pricing Medicine Access and Rational Use > Supply Management
Author:	Kaplan, Warren Allan
Year:	2011 Pages: 56
Publishers:	WHO Headquarters in Geneva
Related documents:	Increasing Access to Diagnostics Through Technology Transfer and Local Production Local Production for Access to Medical Products: Developing a Framework to Improve Public Health Local Production of Pharmaceuticals and Related Technology Transfer in Developing Countries: A Series of Case Studies by the UNCTAD Secretariat Trends in Local Production of Medicines and Related Technology Transfer Pharmaceutical Production and Related Technology Transfer: Landscape Report
Regions:	Global

Title:	Local Production for Access to Medical Products: Developing a Framework to Improve Public Health
Subjects:	Medicine Information and Evidence for Policy > Medicines Policy Medicine Access and Rational Use > Pricing Medicine Access and Rational Use > Supply Management
Year:	2011 Pages: 78
Publishers:	WHO Headquarters in Geneva
Related documents:	Increasing Access to Diagnostics Through Technology Transfer and Local Production Local Production and Access to Medicines in Low- and Middle-income Countries: A Literature Review and Critical Analysis Local Production of Pharmaceuticals and Related Technology Transfer in Developing Countries: A Series of Case Studies by the UNCTAD Secretariat Trends in Local Production of Medicines and Related Technology Transfer Pharmaceutical Production and Related Technology Transfer: Landscape Report
Regions:	Global

Title:	Measuring Medicine Prices in Peru: Validation of Key Aspects of WHO/HAI Survey Methodology
Subjects:	Medicine Access and Rational Use > Pricing
Author:	Ewen, Margaret; Laing, Richard; Madden, Jeanne M.; Meza, Edson; Ross-Degnan, D; Stephens, Peter
Year:	2010 Pages: 9
Publishers:	World Health Organization - Regional Office for the Americas (WHO/AMRO/PAHO)
Countries:	Peru

Title:	Measuring Medicine Prices, Availability, Affordability and Price Components - 2nd Edition [French] [Spanish]
Subjects:	Medicine Access and Rational Use > Pricing
Year:	2008 Pages: 310
Publishers:	WHO Headquarters in Geneva Health Action International (HAI)
Regions:	Global

Title:	Medicine Prices in Nigeria
Subjects:	Medicine Access and Rational Use > Pricing
Year:	2006 Pages: 71
Publishers:	WHO Country Office in Nigeria WHO Headquarters in Geneva World Health Organization - Regional Office for Africa (WHO/AFRO) DFID - UK Department for International Development European Union (EU) Nigeria Ministry of Health Health Action International (HAI)
Countries:	Nigeria

Title:	Medicine Prices Surveys and Proposed Interventions to Improve Sustainable Access to Affordable Medicines in 6 Sub-Saharan African Countries - Etudes des prix des médicaments et interventions proposées pour améliorer durablement l'accès aux médicaments dans 6 pays de l'Afrique subsaharienne
Subjects:	Medicine Access and Rational Use > Pricing
Year:	2006 Pages: 43
Publishers:	WHO Headquarters in Geneva
Regions:	Africa (AFRO)
Countries:	Ghana; Kenya; Mali; Uganda; United Republic of Tanzania

Title:	Medicine Prices, Availability, Affordability and Price Components. A Synthesis Report of Medicine Price Surveys Undertaken in Selected Countries of the WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region
Subjects:	Medicine Access and Rational Use > Pricing
Year:	2008 Pages: 112
Publishers:	World Health Organization - Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean (WHO/EMRO)
Regions:	Eastern Mediterranean (EMRO)

Title:	Pharmaceutical Production and Related Technology Transfer: Landscape Report
Subjects:	Medicine Information and Evidence for Policy > Medicines Policy Medicine Access and Rational Use > Pricing Medicine Access and Rational Use > Supply Management
Author:	Moon, Suerie
Year:	2011 Pages: 92
Publishers:	WHO Headquarters in Geneva
Related documents:	Increasing Access to Diagnostics Through Technology Transfer and Local Production Local Production for Access to Medical Products: Developing a Framework to Improve Public Health Local Production and Access to Medicines in Low- and Middle-income Countries: A Literature Review and Critical Analysis Local Production of Pharmaceuticals and Related Technology Transfer in Developing Countries: A Series of Case Studies by the UNCTAD Secretariat Trends in Local Production of Medicines and Related Technology Transfer
Regions:	Global

Title:	Price, Availability and Affordability - An International Comparison of Chronic Disease Medicines
Subjects:	Medicine Access and Rational Use > Pricing
Author:	Ewen, Margaret; Gelders, Susanne; Laing, Richard; Noguchi, Nakae
Year:	2006 Pages: 169
Publishers:	WHO Headquarters in Geneva Health Action International (HAI)
Regions:	Global

Title:	Proposed Methodology for Monitoring Antiretroviral Drugs Price Negotiations in Latin America and the Caribbean
Subjects:	Medicine Information and Evidence for Policy > Monitoring and Evaluation Medicine Access and Rational Use > Pricing
Author:	Miranda, Elaine Silva; Nuñez, Maruja Crisante; Oliveira, Egléubia Andrade de; Oliveira, Maria Auxiliadora; Osorio-de-Castro, Claudia Garcia Serpa
Year:	2009 Pages: 11
Publishers:	PAHO/WHO Collaborating Center for Pharmaceutical Policies - National School of Public Health - Oswaldo Cruz Foundation
Related documents:	Methodology for the Evaluation of Price Negotiations of Anti-Retrovirals in Latin American and Caribbean Countries Méthodologie pour l’évaluation des négociations des prix des antirrétroviraux dans les pays d’Amérique Latine et Caraïbes Metodologia para la evaluacion de las negociaciones de precios de antirretrovirales en paises de America Latina y Caribe
Regions:	America (AMRO)

Title:	Report of the Workshop on Differential Pricing & Financing of Essential Drugs [French] [Spanish]
Subjects:	Medicine Access and Rational Use > Financing Medicine Access and Rational Use > Pricing
Year:	2001 Pages: 20
Publishers:	WHO Headquarters in Geneva Norwegian Foreign Affairs Ministry (UTENRIKSDEPARTEMENTET)
Regions:	Global

Title:	A Situational Analysis and Feasibility Study on Regional Pooled Bulk Procurement of Essential Medicines and Other Health Supplies in the East African Community Partner States. Final report, September 2007
Subjects:	Medicine Access and Rational Use > Financing Medicine Access and Rational Use > Pricing Medicine Access and Rational Use > Supply Management Medicine Programme Coordination > Programme Coordination Quality and Safety: Medicines > Regulatory Support
Year:	2007 Pages: 110
Publishers:	WHO Headquarters in Geneva John Snow Inc. (JSI) Management Sciences for Health (MSH) - Rational Pharmaceutical Management Plus
Regions:	Africa (AFRO); EAC East African Community

Title:	Sources and Prices of Selected Drugs and Diagnostics for People Living with HIV/AIDS [French] [Spanish]
Subjects:	Medicine Access and Rational Use > Pricing Medicine Access and Rational Use > Supply Management
Year:	2002 Pages: 41
Publishers:	WHO Headquarters in Geneva Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) Médecins sans Frontières (MSF)
Regions:	Global

Title:	Sources and Prices of Selected Medicines and Diagnostics for People Living with HIV/AIDS [French] [Spanish]
Subjects:	Medicine Access and Rational Use > Pricing Medicine Access and Rational Use > Supply Management
Year:	2003 Pages: 92
Publishers:	WHO Headquarters in Geneva Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) Médecins sans Frontières (MSF)
Regions:	Global

Title:	Sources and Prices of Selected Medicines and Diagnostics for People Living with HIV/AIDS
Subjects:	Medicine Access and Rational Use > Pricing Medicine Access and Rational Use > Supply Management
Year:	2004 Pages: 134
Publishers:	WHO Headquarters in Geneva Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) Médecins sans Frontières (MSF)
Regions:	Global

Title:	Sources and Prices of Selected Medicines and Diagnostics for People Living with HIV/AIDS
Subjects:	Medicine Access and Rational Use > Pricing Medicine Access and Rational Use > Supply Management
Year:	2005 Pages: 85
Publishers:	WHO Headquarters in Geneva Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) Médecins sans Frontières (MSF)
Regions:	Global

Title:	Sources and Prices of Selected Medicines for Children. Including Therapeutic Food, Dietary Vitamin and Mineral Supplementation. 2nd Edition, April 2010
Subjects:	Medicine Access and Rational Use > Better Medicines for Children Medicine Access and Rational Use > Pricing
Year:	2010 Pages: 123
Publishers:	WHO Headquarters in Geneva United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)
Regions:	Global

Title:	Sources and Prices of Selected Products for the Prevention, Diagnosis and Treatment of Malaria [French]
Subjects:	Medicine Access and Rational Use > Pricing Medicine Access and Rational Use > Supply Management
Year:	2004 Pages: 70
Publishers:	WHO Headquarters in Geneva United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) Management Sciences for Health (MSH) Population Services International (PSI) Roll Back Malaria (RBM)
Regions:	Global

Title:	A Survey of Medicine Prices in Kenya - 2004
Subjects:	Medicine Access and Rational Use > Pricing
Year:	2005 Pages: 57
Publishers:	WHO Country Office in Kenya Kenya Ministry of Health Health Action International - Africa
Countries:	Kenya

Title:	Transaction Prices for Antiretroviral Medicines and HIV Diagnostics from 2008 to October 2010. A Summary Report from the Global Price Reporting Mechanism, December 2010
Subjects:	Medicine Access and Rational Use > Pricing
Year:	2010 Pages: 40
Publishers:	WHO Headquarters in Geneva
Regions:	Global

Title:	Trends in Local Production of Medicines and Related Technology Transfer
Subjects:	Medicine Information and Evidence for Policy > Medicines Policy Medicine Access and Rational Use > Pricing Medicine Access and Rational Use > Supply Management
Author:	Abbott, Frederick M
Year:	2011 Pages: 204
Publishers:	WHO Headquarters in Geneva
Related documents:	Increasing Access to Diagnostics Through Technology Transfer and Local Production Local Production for Access to Medical Products: Developing a Framework to Improve Public Health Local Production and Access to Medicines in Low- and Middle-income Countries: A Literature Review and Critical Analysis Local Production of Pharmaceuticals and Related Technology Transfer in Developing Countries: A Series of Case Studies by the UNCTAD Secretariat Pharmaceutical Production and Related Technology Transfer: Landscape Report
Regions:	Global

Title:	Using TRIPS Flexibilities to Improve Access to HIV Treatment
Subjects:	Medicine Information and Evidence for Policy > Medicines Policy Medicine Access and Rational Use > Pricing Medicine Access and Rational Use > Supply Management
Year:	2011 Pages: 12
Publishers:	WHO Headquarters in Geneva Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
Regions:	Global

Title:	Websites Reporting Medicine Prices: A Comparative Analysis
Subjects:	Medicine Access and Rational Use > Pricing
Author:	van Dongen, Saskia
Year:	2010 Pages: 365
Publishers:	WHO Collaborating Centre for Phamacoepidemiology and Pharmaceutical Policy Analysis (Utrecht, Netherlands)
Regions:	Global

Title:	The World Medicines Situation 2011 - Medicine Expenditures
Subjects:	Medicine Information and Evidence for Policy > World’s Medicines Situation Report Medicine Access and Rational Use > Financing Medicine Access and Rational Use > Pricing
Author:	Abegunde, Dele; Edejer, Tessa; Hernandez, Patricia; Lu, Ye
Year:	2011 Pages: 34
Publishers:	WHO Headquarters in Geneva
Regions:	Global

Title:	The World Medicines Situation 2011 - Medicines Prices, Availability and Affordability
Subjects:	Medicine Information and Evidence for Policy > World’s Medicines Situation Report Medicine Access and Rational Use > Pricing
Author:	Abegunde, Dele; Auton, Martin; Cameron, Alexandra; Ewen, Margaret
Year:	2011 Pages: 32
Publishers:	WHO Headquarters in Geneva
Regions:	Global

Title:	WTO Agreements and Public Health - A Joint Study by WHO and the WTO Secretaria [French] [Spanish]
Subjects:	Medicine Information and Evidence for Policy > Medicines Policy Medicine Access and Rational Use > Pricing
Year:	2002 Pages: 175
Publishers:	WHO Headquarters in Geneva World Trade Organization (WTO)
Regions:	Global

Last updated: January 19, 2012