UN Secretary General’s High-Level Panel on Access to Medicines
http://www.unsgaccessmeds.org/#homepage-1

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GLOBAL DIALOGUE LIVE FROM JOHANNESBURG
When: 10:00 – 17:00 (London time)
Location: Johannesburg, South Africa

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WHO submission
Submission in response to request for a written contribution by the World Health Organization to the UN SG High-Level Panel on Access to Medicines.
7 March 2016 :: 20 pages
…The mandate of the High-Level Panel focuses on the current innovation model and its impact on access to health products. It does not include the many other complex challenges countries are facing in designing robust health systems and ensuring delivery of primary care. The Panel is looking both for possibilities for incremental improvements of the current system and for alternative or complementary models through which to research and develop new medical treatments, vaccines and diagnostics.
This submission thus briefly summarizes relevant WHO experience in access to medicines that relate to the current innovation system, and presents in more detail a number of WHO-led projects that implement alternative models of innovation. These will foster the development of health products that address priority health needs, to ensure these products will be affordable and available to those who need them….