Report
03 Dec 2018
This report highlights the findings of a 2016 global survey on the perspective of people with diabetes and health professionals on Access to Medicines and Supplies for People with Diabetes.
Briefs & Fact Sheets
27 Nov 2018
This policy brief summarises the key points from the review on the role of health technology assessment (HTA) in medicine pricing and reimbursement with a focus on its use in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs).
Briefs & Fact Sheets
12 Nov 2018
This action plan provides a roadmap of policies and interventions to realize SDG 3.4 to reduce premature NCD deaths. Heart attacks and strokes can be prevented if people at high risk are detected and treated.
Briefs & Fact Sheets
12 Nov 2018
This action plan provides a roadmap of policies and interventions to realize SDG 3.4 to reduce premature NCD deaths, target 3.8 to achieve universal health coverage (UHC), and target 3.b to support the research and development of vaccines and medicin...
Report
17 Oct 2018
This annual report summarizes the activities of the Fund during 2016. The Strategic Fund is an innovative cooperation model that seeks to strengthen the management of the regional and national supply chain for essential medical products, so that ever...
Report
17 Oct 2018
The Strategic Fund is a regional technical cooperation mechanism for pooled procurement of essential medicines and strategic public health supplies in the Americas. The Strategic Fund was created in 2000 by the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO)...
Report
17 Oct 2018
This regional report of the 2015 country capacity survey offers an overview of the current capacities of the countries of the Eastern Mediterranean Region to respond to noncommunicable diseases, particularly in the four key areas of governance, preve...
Report
17 Oct 2018
This report, based on a consultative process and extensive literature reviews, provides information to improve access to essential medicines for mental disorders. It examines current barriers to access to psychotropic medicines and identifies key act...
Guide
16 Oct 2018
The World Health Assembly has resolved that palliative care is “an ethical responsibility of health systems” and that integration of palliative care into public health care systems is essential for the achievement of the Sustainable Development G...
Guide
11 Mar 2018
Responses to humanitarian emergencies and crises rarely provide palliative care, the discipline devoted to preventing and relieving suffering rather than to specific diseases, organs or technical skills.This guide, the fourth in a series of World Hea...
Article
13 Oct 2017
In agonising, crippling pain from lung cancer, Mr S came to the palliative care service in Calicut, Kerala, from an adjoining district a couple of hours away by bus. His body language revealed the depth of the suffering.We put Mr S on morphine, among...
Database
01 Mar 2017
National breast cancer control programs can be developed and implemented at all resource levels. Successful breast cancer programs offer women with breast cancer the best possible outcomes while effectively using available resources. Breast cancer ca...
