Essential medicines and pharmaceuticals policy

Activities and achievements

WHO collaborates with national counterparts and partners to meet the following objectives:

  • To develop, revise, implement and monitor national medicines policies and to improve access to essential medicines;
  • To strengthen medicines regulation and quality assurance and to combat counterfeit and substandard drugs; and
  • To promote therapeutically effective, safe and cost-effective use of medicines.

Areas

Contact us

emt@wpro.who.int