JUNE 2004
WHO/EDM/PAR/2004.4
A JOINT UNICEF - UNAIDS - WHO - MSF PROJECT
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On the following web pages:
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UNAIDS: www.unaids.org
WHO/Department of Essential Drugs and Medicines Policy: www.who.int/medicines
WHO/Department of HIV/AIDS: www.who.int/HIV_AIDS
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF): www.accessmed-msf.org
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Or by contacting:
Pharmaceuticals and Micronutrients Team, UNICEF Supply Division Fax: +45 35 269421
Department of Social Mobilization and Information, UNAIDS Fax: +41 22 7914741
Essential Drugs and Medicines Policy (EDM), World Health Organization Fax: +41 22 7914167
Campaign for Access to Essential Medicines, Médecins Sans Frontières Fax: +41 22 8498404
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Information on HIV/AIDS diagnostic support, HIV test kit evaluations and bulk procurement are available on the WHO/Department of Essential Health and Technologies website: www.who.int/eht
Information on HIV/AIDS and substance abuse dependence is available from www.who.int/substance_abuse
WHO Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data
Sources and prices of selected medicines and diagnostics for people living with HIV/AIDS/a joint UNICEF, UNAIDS Secretariat, WHO, MSF project.
1. Pharmaceutical preparations - supply and distribution
2. Reagent kits, Diagnostic - supply and distribution
3. HIV infections - diagnosis
4. HIV infections - drug therapy
5. Price lists
6. Catalogs, Drug I.UNICEF
ISBN 92 4 159179 X
(LC/NLM classification: QV 772)
© World Health Organization, United Nations Children’s Fund, Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), Médecins Sans Frontières, 2004. All rights reserved.
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