E-DRUG: Guidelines for drug donations

Dear E-druggers,
     
The March 08 1997 issue of the British Medical Journal carries an
article on 'Guidelines for drug donations' by researchers at the WHO.
I have reproduced the abstract below. The full article can be
retrieved by netscape access (URL:
   http://www.bmj.com/archive/7082ed.htm). Good luck!
     
Syed Rizwanuddin Ahmad
Division of Information Development
United States Pharmacopeial Convention, Inc.
     
Guidelines for drug donations
H V Hogerzeil, M R Couper, R Gray
     
Abstract
     
Drug donations are usually given in response to acute emergencies, but
they can also be part of development aid. Donations may be given
directly by governments, by non-governmental organisations, as
corporate donations (direct or through private voluntary
organisations), or as private donations to single health facilities.
Although there are legitimate differences between these donations,
basic rules should apply to them all. This common core of "good
donation practice" is the basis for new guidelines which have recently
been issued by the World Health Organisation after consultation with
all relevant United Nations agencies, the Red Cross, and other major
international agencies active in humanitarian emergency relief. This
article summarises the need for such guidelines, the development
process, the core principles, and the guidelines themselves and gives
practical advice to recipients and donor agencies.

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