The Selection and Use of Essential Medicines - WHO Technical Report Series, No. 920: 3. Update on current activities: 3.5 Review of essential medicines for reproductive health

The Selection and Use of Essential Medicines - WHO Technical Report Series, No. 920
(2003; 137 pages)

Índice de contenido

1. Introduction
2. Open session
3. Update on current activities
	3.1 Dissemination of the previous report of the Expert Committee (including the 12th Model List)
	3.2 The twenty-fifth anniversary of the WHO Model List of Essential Medicines
	3.3 The WHO model formulary
	3.4 Review of the New Emergency Health Kit
	3.5 Review of essential medicines for reproductive health
	3.6 Report of an ad hoc Advisory Committee on priority vaccines
	3.7 The WHO Essential Medicines Library
	3.8 Promoting rational use of essential medicines
		3.8.1 Update on activities to contain antimicrobial resistance
		3.8.2 Guidelines for drugs and therapeutic committees
		3.8.3 WHO database on rational drug use studies
4. Changes made in revising the Model List
	4.1 Applications for additions
		4.1.1 Amodiaquine
		4.1.2 Azithromycin
		4.1.3 Ibuprofen (paediatric formulation)
		4.1.4 Insulin semilente
		4.1.5 Miconazole nitrate buccal tablets
		4.1.6 Misoprostol
		4.1.7 Valaciclovir
	4.2 Applications for deletions
		4.2.1 Ethinylestradiol + levonorgestrel tablets (50µg + 250µg, pack of four)
		4.2.2 Nonoxynol
	4.3 Applications for addition of information
		4.3.1 Anti-leprosy medicines
	4.4 Other changes
		4.4.1 Oral rehydration salts
		4.4.2 Streptokinase
5. Reviews of sections of the Model List
	5.1 "Fast-track" procedure for deleting items from the Model List
	5.2 Review of core versus complementary listing of medicines
	5.3 Review of the use of the square box symbol (including a review of the corticosteroids)
	5.4 Review of the antihypertensive medicines
6. Priorities for future reviews
7. Recommendations
	7.1 Additions, deletions and other changes to the Model List
	7.2 Core versus complementary listing of medicines
	7.3 Use of the square box symbol (including review of the corticosteroids
	7.4 Review of the antihypertensive medicines
	7.5 Future priorities
References
Annex 1 The 13th WHO Model List of Essential Medicines
Annex 2 The Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical (ATC) classification system¹
Alphabetical list of essential medicines (with ATC classification code numbers)
Selected WHO Publications of Related Interest

3.5 Review of essential medicines for reproductive health

It was noted that a draft interagency list of essential medicines for reproductive health and a Core List of Essential Medicines for Reproductive Health drawn up by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) are not fully consistent with the Model List. For instance, 22 items on the draft interagency list and 6 medicines on the UNFPA list do not appear on the Model List. Work is under way to analyse these discrepancies; the analysis will take into account the relevant clinical guidelines and the evidence that supports the selection of items on the other two lists. This information will be used to streamline the three different lists and will become part of the WHO Essential Medicines Library.