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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 still under edition, but preliminary versions are now available:

:: UNEDITED WHO Technical Report Series -- The Selection and Use of Essential Medicines, March 2009 [pdf 1.34Mb]

:: 16th WHO Model List of Essential Medicines, March 2009 [pdf 432kb]

:: Second WHO Model List of Essential Medicines for Children, March 2009 [pdf 418kb]

:: 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]

USEFUL DOCUMENTS

16th WHO Model List of Essential Medicines [pdf 432kb]
Second WHO Model List of Essential Medicines for Children

WHO Technical Report Series 950 (Children) cover image
WHO Technical Report Series 950
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WHO Technical Report Series 946: The Selection and Use of Essential Medicines
WHO Technical Report Series 946
Read more... [pdf 2.03Mb]