Commentary

Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics (2007) 82, 500–503. doi:10.1038/sj.clpt.6100388

Essential Medicines for the Whole World

M M Reidenberg1

1Division of Clinical Pharmacology, Cornell University Medical College, New York, New York, USA

Correspondence: MM Reidenberg, (mmreid@med.cornell.edu)

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Abstract

The concept of essential medicines1 is as relevant to the whole world now as it was for some countries in 1975 when the concept was developed.2,3 Basically, the concept is that medicines needed to satisfy the priority health-care needs of a population should be made available at all times to everyone in the population within the context of a functioning health-care system (see Box 1).

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