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25 years of essential medicines progress
Essential Drugs and Medicine Policy, WHO, 2003
The historic first meeting of the World Health Organization (WHO) Expert Committee on the Selection of Essential Drugs took place in Geneva in 1977. Today, more than 150 countries have adopted the concept and developed their own national lists of essential medicines.This special issue of the Essential Drugs Monitor, produced by the WHO, celebrates 25 years of the essential medicines concept.
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Stepping back from the edge: the pursuit of antiretroviral therapy in Botswana, South Africa and Uganda
Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, 2003
This Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) ‘Best Practice Collection’ describes who is taking the initiative on better access to antiretrovirals at grass-roots level and how they are doing it. The report offers firsthand experience from HIV/AIDS programmes in three African countries.
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Surmounting challenges: procurement of antiretroviral medicines in low- and middle-income countries
Access to Essential Medicines Campaign, MSF, 2003
As the price of antiretrovirals (ARVs) in low- and middle-income countries has fallen in recent years, governments, international agencies and non-governmental organisations have been able to start developing treatment programmes for people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA).