Essential Medicines for Children: An Endocrine Perspective

essential medicines for children: an endocrine perspective

Essential medicines for children: an endocrine perspective.

Dear Editor, The emergence of endocrine disease has created significant challenges for healthcare policy-makers and payers across the world. Policy-makers have to ensure availability of drugs used for various endocrinopathies. One way in which this is facilitated is through the World Health Organization (WHO) List of Essential Medicines (LEM). The LEM aims to cover the basic pharmaceutical need...

Essential medicines for children in Armenia.

BACKGROUND Drug therapy plays a key role in pediatrics. Effective treatment in pediatric practice means that medicines should be both effective and safe for children. However, there is not enough data on effectiveness and safety of medicines for children due to small number of clinical trials [1]. Access to medicines for children remains a serious problem worldwide [2]. The World Health Organiz...

WHO to launch first essential medicines list for children.

What essential medicines for children are on the shelf?

OBJECTIVE To document the inclusion of key medicines for children in national essential medicines lists (EMLs) and standard treatment guidelines, and to assess the availability and cost of these medicines in 14 countries in central Africa. METHODS Surveys were conducted in 12 public and private sector medicine outlets in each country's capital city. Data were collected on medicine availabilit...

Essential medicines for children: Should we focus on a priority list of medicines for the present?

Address for correspondence: B Gitanjali, Department of Pharmacology, Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research, Pondicherry – 605 006, India. E-mail: [email protected] The Better Medicines for Children (BMC) initiative of the World Health Organization (WHO) began in December 2007 as a consequence of the World Health Assembly resolution 60.20, when there was overwhel...