Health products policy and standards
Our team provides authoritative guidance and standards on quality, safety and efficacy of health products and supports countries to formulate evidence-based policies and ensure good practice throughout the value chain.
Highlights
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Events
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20 – 24 October 2025
Fifty-ninth meeting of the WHO Expert Committee on Specifications for Pharmaceutical Preparations
28 October 2025 09:00 – 10:30 UTC Time
Open session preceding the 58th meeting of the WHO International Working Group for Drug Statistics Methodology
28 – 29 October 2025
58th meeting of the WHO International Working Group for Drug Statistics Methodology
Expert Committees
Advisory groups
Databases
Publications
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6 October 2025
Improving access to assistive technology in United Republic of Tanzania (2022-2023): project report
The report summarizes a collaboration between the Ministry of Health of the United Republic of Tanzania, HelpAge Tanzania and the World Health Organization...
3 October 2025
WHO Drug Information - Volume 39, No. 3
The Third issue of volume 39 for 2025 includes:Consultation Documents: Cefiderocol sulfate tosilate (cefiderocoli sulfas tosilatum) Cefiderocol powder...
23 September 2025
Availability, price and affordability of health technologies for the management of diabetes
The WHO list of priority medical devices for management of cardiovascular diseases and diabetes, https://iris.who.int/handle/10665/341967, describes those...
5 September 2025
The selection and use of essential medicines, 2025: WHO AWaRe (Access, Watch, Reserve) classification...
The AWaRe classification is intended as a tool for monitoring antibiotic use, defining targets and monitoring the impact of stewardship policies and interventions...
Journal articles
The “Square Box”: Therapeutic Equivalence as a Foundation of the WHO Model List of Essential Medicines
Front Pharmacol. 2020 Sep 11;11:578000
WHO's essential medicines and AWaRe: recommendations on first- and second-choice antibiotics for empiric treatment of clinical infections
Clinical Microbiology and Infection 30 (2024) S1eS51
Identifying and costing common gaps in Central and West Africa pharmaceutical regulation
Front. Med., 05 April 2024 Sec. Regulatory Science
