Options for financing and optimizing medicines in resource-poor countries
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Overview
The paper has four broad sections. Section-1 discusses the challenges to medicines’ financing in developing countries and highlights some of the bottlenecks in medicines availability, affordability, and the lack of good regulation and planning. The following section analyses different options for financing medicines and their merits and demerits. Section-3 brings out some examples of successful execution of the listed financing options. Section-4 provides an analytical framework for financing to attain universal coverage of medicines.
This report is part of a series, The World Health Report 2010 Background Papers, which were written to inform the process of developing the key messages of the World Health Report 2010: Health systems financing: The path to universal coverage.