[e-drug] WCC/EPN: Making access to essential medicines possible

E-DRUG: WCC/EPN: Making access to essential medicines possible
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Your E-drug moderator spotted an interesting publication on essential medicines: Contact No 181 (Nov/Dec 2005), a publication of the World Council of Churches, is a special issue on "Making access to essential medicines possible"

See http://www.wcc-coe.org/wcc/news/con181-e.pdf

Table of contents:

2 Editorial

4 Trade in medicines after WTO/TRIPS: Does it support or hinder availability?

9 Effects of pricing on access: What the WHO/HAI pricing surveys tell us.

12 Getting medicines to the people

16 Human resources: The engine that drives it all

19 Balancing profit and service using franchise models

23 Community action to improve access

26 Bible Study Access to medicines: Is there a vision?

27 Reasources, Introducing EPN

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Wilbert Bannenberg, E-drug moderator
Email: wjb@planet.nl

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