E-DRUG: Missing Drug Formulations for HIV Treatment, Submission
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The Medicines Patent Pool, UNITAID and the World Health Organization HIV Department made a joint sumbission to the WHO Expert Committee on Essential Medicines on 18 February. It provides an updated list of the needed formulations for HIV treatment in both adults and children.
The submission is now available online here<http://www.who.int/selection_medicines/committees/expert/18/policy/policy4/en/index.html>\. It will be reviewed at the next meeting of the WHO Expert Committee on the Selection and Use of Essential Medicines in Accra, Ghana 21-25 March.
The submission was endorsed by the following core partners of the WHO's "Treatment 2.0 Initiative" for meeting current and future needs of people living with HIV:
Agence Nationale de Recherche sur le SIDA (ANRS), AIDS and Rights Alliance for Southern Africa (ARASA), The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, HealthGap, International AIDS Society (IAS), International Treatment Preparedness Coalition (ITPC), Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), Pangaea Global AIDS Foundation, the United States President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) and the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS).
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Kaitlin Mara
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