19th Expert Committee on the Selection and Use of Essential Medicines

The 19th Expert Committee meeting took place at WHO Headquarters, Geneva, from 8 to 12 April 2013.

The WHO Secretariat for the 19th Expert Committee on Selection and Use of Essential Medicines thanks all those who have provided comments.

AGENDA ITEMS

• All applications
• All applications by sections
• Medicines for children
• Expert reviews

GENERAL POLICY ITEMS

Background information

• WHO Technical Report Series (Reports of the Expert Committees)
• Essential Medicines Lists
• Draft Agenda for the Open Session
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• Projet d'Ordre du Jour
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• Draft Agenda for the Closed Session
  pdf, 116kb

Presentations made at the Open Session of the 19th Expert Committee

• Messages on WHO Essential Medicines: Pivotal for Access to Pain Management
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• Relieving suffering: essential medicines in palliative care
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• The case for support: addressing the needs of cancer patients worldwide in theWHO Model Essential Medicines List
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• Blood is an Essential Medicine
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• Addition of whole blood and red blood cells on the WHO essential medicine lists: an assessment of pros and cons from the European Blood Alliance
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• Statement from International Transfusion Medicine Experts
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