Essential Medicines and Pharmaceutical Policies

Our vision is that people everywhere have access to the essential medicines they need; that the medicines are safe, effective and of assured quality; and that they are prescribed and used rationally.
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TECHNICAL AREAS Medicine Information and Evidence for Policy :: Information and Publications :: Medicines Policy :: Monitoring and Evaluation :: Technical Briefing Seminars Medicine Access and Rational Use :: Better Medicines for Children :: Controlled Medicines :: Financing :: Good Governance for Medicines :: Pricing :: Rational Use :: Selection :: Supply Management Traditional Medicine :: Traditional, Complementary and Herbal Medicine

Medicine Programme Coordination :: Working with Countries :: EC/ACP/WHO Partnership :: MeTA :: Pharmaceutical Country Profiles Quality and Safety: Medicines :: Blood Products and Related Biologicals :: Counterfeit Medicines :: International Nonproprietary Names :: Quality Assurance :: Regulatory Support :: Safety and Efficacy :: The International Pharmacopoeia Prequalification of Medicines :: WHO-UNICEF-UN Project

Cluster website
Health Systems and Services

Fact sheet
Counterfeit medicines: a public health challenge

Drug Alerts
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1211, Geneva 27
Switzerland
Tel: EMP contacts
Email: empinfo@who.int