Thematic Guide: Essential medical products, vaccines, technologies

• Essential Medicines and Pharmaceutical Policies
  Our vision is that people everywhere have access to the essential medicines they need; that the medicines are safe, effective and of assured quality; and that they are prescribed and used rationally.
  www.who.int/medicines
• Immunization, Vaccines and Biologicals
  "The mission of the WHO Department of Immunization, Vaccines and Biologicals is the attainment of 'a world in which all people at risk are protected against vaccine-preventable diseases'."
  www.who.int/immunization
  
• Essential health technologies (EHT)
  "The Department has arisen out of what was formerly the Department of Blood Safety and Clinical Technology (BCT). The renaming of the department reflects the recognition that many other health technologies play equally important roles as blood transfusion in prevention and health care and so also deserve to be given priority."
  www.who.int/eht

• The First Global Forum on Medical Devices
  Bangkok, 9-11 September 2010
  www.who.int/entity/medical_devices/gfmd/
  
• Globalisation and Health Technology Assessment
  Singapore, 21-24 June 2009
  "The 6th Annual Meeting of Health Technology Assessment International (HTAi) will focus on how globalisation will impact on the field of HTA, how HTA should develop to meet the needs of different parts of the world, and how HTAi will adapt to its role as a global organisation."
  www.htai2009.org
  

Civil society networks and campaigns

• Health Action International
  www.haiweb.org
• MSF Access campaign
  www.accessmed-msf.org
• Knowledge Ecology International: Access to medical technologies
  http://keionline.org

MMI Network members

• action medeor
  www.medeor.de
• Wemos
  www.wemos.nl
• Ecumenical Pharmaceutical Network
  www.epnetwork.org

• unitaid
  www.unitaid.eu

• WHO: Selection of essential medicines
  www.who.int/selection_medicines
• WHO: Commission on Intellectual Property Rights, Innovation and Public Health (CIPIH)
  www.who.int/intellectualproperty
• Discussion group: E-DRUG
  www.essentialdrugs.org
  

• 30 priority medicines for mothers and children. WHO 2011
  www.who.int/childmedicines/prioritymedicines
• WHO medicines strategy 2008-2013 (pdf)
  www.who.int/medicines/

• Global alliance on healthcare technology
  www.who.int
  
• Global harmonization task force (GHTF)
  www.ghtf.org
• Health Technology Assessment International (HTAi)
  www.htai.org
  
• International Network of Agencies for Health Technology Assessment (INAHTA)
  www.inahta.org
  

• WHO topic page: Health technology
  www.who.int/topics/technology_medical
• WHO Health Technologies e-Documentation Centre
  http://hinfo.humaninfo.ro
  
• WHO topic page: Medical devices
  www.who.int/medical_devices
  
  

• Health technologies and innovation in the global health arena
  Sidhartha R. Sinha and Michele Barry in: NEJM, September 2011
  www.nejm.org
  
• Medical Devices: Managing the Mismatch 
  The final report of the WHO project "Priority medical devices" was launched on 9 September 2010 at the First Global Forum on Medical Devices.
  PDF: http://whqlibdoc.who.int/publications
  Background papers: www.who.int/medical_devices/access
  Forum documentation: www.who.int/entity/medical_devices/gfmd/
  
• How do good health technologies get to poor people in poor countries?
  LJ Frost, MR Reich, Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies (2010, pdf).
  www.who.int/pmnch/

• GAVI Alliance
  GAVI (formerly The Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation) is a global health partnership between the private and public sectors, committed to the mission of saving children's lives and protecting people's health by increasing access to immunisation in poor countries.
  www.gavialliance.org
  

• WHO thematic page: Immunization
  www.who.int/topics/immunization