Promoting rational use of medicines

Abstract

This "Intercountry Meeting on Promoting the Rational Use of Medicines" was held in July 2010 to review the progress of activities that had been initiated after the December 2007 Bangkok meeting on the "Role of Education in the Rational Use of Medicines", and to re-examine the recommendations made there. Participants prepared a regional strategic framework for promotion of rational use of medicines in the South-East Asia Region; a country strategic framework to strengthen the rational use of medicines through education of consumers; and a generic protocol for education of consumers in the rational use of medicines at the country level.