E-drug: WHO- HAI workshop on medicine prices, Cairo, 20-22 October
2003.
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Dear E-druggers,
In May this year EDM/WHO and Health Action International (HAI) launched a
well-tested survey method for comparing and analyzing medicine prices.
Details are on our websites
http://www.who.int/medicines/library/prices.shtml
and
http://www.haiweb.org/medicineprices/.
Commitment to working through and with NGOs has been central to this
project from its conception. A database of results from the first
studies is already available on the HAI website.
The second phase of the project involves, among other things, several
regional workshops to familiarize potential survey managers with the method,
and to assist them in analyzing their data and identifying appropriate
follow-up actions. From 20 to 22 October this year WHO and HAI will hold a
workshop in Cairo for countries in WHO's Eastern Mediterranean region.
Financial support for participation is available for a number of people from
NGOs in the region.
The Cairo workshop will bring together people from government, academic and
NGO backgrounds whose concerns make them ready to undertake a medicine
prices survey. There will be no charge for participation in the workshop,
but we expect participants to have sponsorship for their travel and
subsistence costs, and to be potential survey managers. The October workshop
will be followed two to three months later by a second gathering, focused on
data analysis and identifying possible policy actions. Details of similar
workshops for African, Asian and Latin American investigators will be
announced subsequently.
Interested individuals and organizations should contact Andrew Creese
(Creesea@who.int) or Margaret Ewen (Marg@haiweb.org), with brief details
about their organization and its areas of work. Remember: the workshop is
specifically to prepare people for carrying out a medicine price survey.
Posted by: Andrew Creese (WHO) and Margaret Ewen (HAI)
Andrew Creese
Essential Drugs and Medicines Policy Department
World Health Organization
1211 Geneva 27
Switzerland
phone 41 22 791 2570
fax 41 22 791 4167
email: creesea@who.int
Margaret Ewen
Health Action International (Europe)
Jacob van Lennepkade 334-T
1053 NJ Amsterdam
The Netherlands
phone 31 20 683 3684
fax 31 20 685 5002
email: marg@haiweb.org
Access the current issue of the Essential Drugs Monitor No.32 at
http://www.who.int/medicines/mon/mon32.shtml
Access archives of past EDM issues at
http://www.who.int/medicines/information/infmonitor.shtml
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