Access to medical products in the South-East Asia Region, 2019
Review of progress
9 February 2019
| Publication
Overview
Improving access to medical products is key to achieving universal health coverage (UHC) and the heath-related Sustainable Development Goals. SDG 3.8 specifically mentions that “access to safe, effective, quality and affordable essential medicines and vaccines for all” is a central component of UHC.
This 2019 report provides an update to the 2017 publication “Improving access to medicines in the South-East Asia Region”. The scope is broader than the previous report: while the main focus is still on medicines, information on access to vaccines, medical devices and diagnostics is included where possible, in keeping with recent regional and global developments.
WHO Team
SEARO Regional Office for the South East Asia (RGO),
WHO South-East Asia
Editors
World Health Organization. Regional Office for South-East Asia
Number of pages
84
Reference numbers
ISBN: 978-92-9022-728-1
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