Essential medicines and pharmaceuticals policy

Goals and objectives







Goals

  • To help save lives and improve health by ensuring equitable access to safe, efficacious and quality-assured essential medicines that are appropriately used by providers and consumers.

Objectives

  • To ensure the commitment of all stakeholders to national medicines policies on access, availability and affordability of essential medicines;
  • To ensure the quality, safety and efficacy of medicines by strengthening and putting into practice medicines regulation and quality assurance systems; and
  • To promote therapeutically effective, safe and cost-effective use of medicines by health care providers and consumers.
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