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Strategy for essential drugs
Although up to 40% of the health care budgets of developing countries is spent on pharmaceuticals, the majority of these nations" populations have only limited access to essential drugs and often receive ineffective, inappropriate, or dangerous drugs instead.
LeRoy, Aida A.; Morse, M. Lee · 1984
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Abstract
Pharmaceutical problems in the Latin America/Caribbean region and A.I.D. and international efforts to alleviate them are discussed in this report. An introductory section identifies pharmaceutical procurement and use problems and the increasing regional awareness of the need to rationalize drug use. Pan American Health Organization activities are described, including the objectives of and strategies for achieving its Regional Program on Essential Drugs (1984-89). Major constraints on improving drug supply - selection, procurement, inventory control, quality control, warehousing, distribution, and use - and solutions for relieving them are outlined. Finally, A.I.D."s proposed strategy of technical assistance and training to promote the availability and rational use of essential drugs in the region is introduced; a list of 26 technical assistance tasks to be funded and 6 illustrative budgets are included.
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