17th Expert Committee on the Selection and Use of Essential Medicines

The 17th Expert Committee on the Selection and Use of Essential Medicines was held from 23 to 27 March 2009.

Applications for inclusion, change or deletion of a medicine in the Model List of Essential Medicines were sent to the Secretary of the Committee whose address is below.

The Secretary of the 17th Expert Committee on the Selection and Use of Essential Medicines
Medicine Access and Rational Use (MAR)
Department of Essential Medicines and Pharmaceutical Policies (EMP)
World Health Organization
20 Avenue Appia
CH-1211 Geneva 27
Switzerland

Public comments, including letters of support on the applications submitted to: emlsecretariat@who.int have been then published on the web.

The documents produced by the 17th Expert Committee on the Selection and Use of Essential Medicines are available at:

• WHO Technical Report Series 958 [pdf 723 KB] incl. Children
• ADULTS -- 16th edition (March 2009 -- Update March 2010)
• ADULTS -- 16th edition (March 2009)
• CHILDREN -- Second edition (March 2009 -- Update March 2010)
• CHILDREN -- Second edition (March 2009)
• Application form
  pdf, 114kb
• All applications
• All applications by sections
• Medicines for children
• Expert reviews

Agenda papers

• Agenda for the Open Session
  pdf, 159kb
• Projet d'ordre du jour de la séance publique
  pdf, 160kb
• Agenda for the Closed Session
  pdf, 175kb
• Projet d'ordre du jour des séances privées
  pdf, 145kb
• Draft Report of the Second Meeting of the Subcommittee of the Expert Committee on the Selection and Use of Essential Medicines
  pdf, 1.61Mb
• Draft Second Essential Medicines List for Children
  pdf, 1.58Mb
• Report of the Informal Expert Meeting on Dosage Forms of Medicines for Children
  pdf, 255kb
• Preliminary QSM proposals for consideration by the WHO Expert Committee on the Selection and Use of Essential Medicines [NEW]
  pdf, 499kb
• Proposal for amending multiple listing
  pdf, 25kb
• UNITAID and WHO Secretariat proposal: the priority missing essential medicines for HIV
  pdf, 138kb