Medicines - World Health Organization (WHO)
...Access to appropriate medications is shown to have substantial impacts on community health and the related economic indicators....
https://www.who.int/health-topics/medicines
WHO Model Lists of Essential Medicines
...The WHO Model Lists of Essential Medicines are updated every two years by the Expert Committee on Selection and Use of Essential Medicines. The first Essential Medicines List was published in 1977, and the first Essential Medicines List for Children was published in 2007. The current versions, updated in July 2023, are the 23 rd Essential Medicines List (EML) and the 9 th Essential Medicines ......
https://www.who.int/groups/expert-committee-on-selection-and-use-of-essential-medicines/essential-medicines-lists
Repository of National Essential Medicines Lists (nEMLs)
...The WHO Repository of National Essential Medicines Lists (nEMLs) serves as a comprehensive repository of national essential medicines lists, national formularies, and national standard treatment guidelines. These documents play an important role in guiding the procurement and supply of medicines in the public sector, informing reimbursement schemes, directing medicine donations, and shaping ......
https://www.who.int/teams/health-product-policy-and-standards/assistive-and-medical-technology/essential-medicines/national-emls
Essential medicines - World Health Organization (WHO)
...WHO fact sheet on essential medicines and the WHO Essential Medicines List (EML), including key facts, impact, challenges, history, update process and WHO response....
https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/essential-medicines
Access to Medicines and Health Products
...Universal health coverage can only be achieved when there is affordable access to safe, effective and quality medicines and health products. Countries face a range of obstacles to achieving this, including rising prices for new medicines; shortages and stock outs of essential medicines, especially for noncommunicable diseases, and the growing problem of substandard and falsified medical ......
https://www.who.int/our-work/access-to-medicines-and-health-products
Ensuring equitable access to essential medicines and health ...
...Equitable access to safe, effective, and quality-assured medicines and other health technologies is a cornerstone of health policies and programmes that leave no one behind....
https://www.who.int/news-room/commentaries/detail/ensuring-equitable-access-to-essential-medicines-and-health-technologies-for-noncommunicable-diseases
Essential Medicines - World Health Organization (WHO)
...Essential medicines are those that satisfy the priority health care needs of the population. They are selected with due regard to public health relevance, evidence on efficacy and safety, and comparative cost-effectiveness.Essential medicines are intended to be available within the context of functioning health systems at all times in adequate amounts, in the appropriate dosage forms, with ......
https://www.who.int/southeastasia/health-topics/essential-medicines
WHO unveils new guideline to improve global access to controlled medicines
...The World Health Organization (WHO) has released a rapid communication outlining its comprehensive new guideline on balanced national policies for controlled medicines. The guideline?s recommendations were officially presented during a high-level side event at the Seventy-eighth World Health Assembly on Friday 23 May 2025. It is designed to support countries in ensuring safe, equitable and ......
https://www.who.int/news/item/26-05-2025-who-unveils-new-guideline-to-improve-global-access-to-controlled-medicines
WHO guideline on country pharmaceutical pricing policies
...In recent years, high prices of pharmaceutical products have posed challenges in high- and low-income countries alike. In many instances, high prices of pharmaceutical products have led to significant financial hardship for individuals and negatively impacted on healthcare systems? ability to provide population-wide access to essential medicines....
https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/9789240011878
Seventy-eighth World Health Assembly ? Daily update: 23 May 2025
...The World Health Organization (WHO) has released a rapid communication outlining its new guideline on balanced national policies for controlled medicines. The guideline was officially presented during a high-level side event at the Seventy-eighth World Health Assembly. It is designed to support countries in ensuring safe, equitable and affordable access to essential controlled medicines which ......
https://www.who.int/news/item/23-05-2025-seventy-eighth-world-health-assembly---daily-update--23-may-2025