E-DRUG: Website on access to essential medicines as part of human rights
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Dear e-druggers,
I am very pleased to announce the opening of a new corner in the
WHO/medicines website, devoted to core materials on access to essential
medicines as part of human rights.
This is the new webpage address:
http://www.who.int/medicines/areas/human_rights/en/index.html
The website presents links to the most relevant global texts and WHO
articles and documents in this area. It also presents, for the first
time, raw data from WHO-sponsored research, such as the full references
and summary data of the 71 court cases from the Lancet article, and the
database of right to health articles in 189 constitutions of the world.
Other links refer to all medicine-related reports by the previous UN
Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health, Paul Hunt; and to other
relevant web sites.
With best regards,
Dr Hans V. Hogerzeil
Director
Essential Medicines and Pharmaceutical Policies
World Health Organization
CH-1211 Geneva 27
Switzerland
Tel: +41-22-791-3528
Fax: +41-22-791-4730
email: hogerzeilh@who.int