E-DRUG: Quo vadis? Medicines in Universal Health Coverage - Wed 24 Feb 2021
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"Quo vadis? Medicines in Universal Health Coverage"
Wednesday 24 February 2021,
8:00-9.15hrs Eastern USA /
15:00-16.15hrs South Africa /
17:00-18.15hrs Dubai
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-zCjHbUZPk
(Note: This session is open to all - conference registration or HSG membership is not required)
Medicines are an essential part of Universal Health Coverage (UHC). Medicines-related challenges are often narrowly addressed as commodity supply issues without proper consideration of the health system and political aspects. This session discusses core challenges of medicines in UHC from a health system and policy perceptive using examples from four countries at different stages in scaling up health and medicine coverage.
Purpose of this interactive 75 minute-session are:
* To identify the core health systems and policy challenges of promoting access to medicines within universal health coverage
* To showcase how medicines access challenges are addressed in different countries
* To discuss core elements of national accountability in access to medicines
Presentations include:
* Asian Region: achieving affordability while ensuring medicines quality (Marie Lamy)
* Moldova: expanding medicine benefits while maintaining financial sustainability (Rita Seicas)
* Mexico: promoting accessibility in the private sector while assuring appropriate use (Anahi Dreser)
* Kenya: tracking progress on equitable access NCD medicines (Zaina Kiragu)
Country cases from different geographical regions are used to illustrate a key challenge of access to medicines within health systems.
This is a session as part of the Thematic Working Group on Medicines in Health Systems Global and will be moderated by one of the TWG co-chair Veronika Wirtz.
More information can be found here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/14rpWFYDgVkbG45hJRiW68gxtt7_DZrEH/view?usp=sharing
Please join us!
Veronika J. Wirtz, BPharm, MSc, PhD, FISPE
Professor, Department of Global Health, Boston University School of Public Health
Director, World Health Organization Collaborating Center in Pharmaceutical Policy
vwirtz@bu.edu