Access to medicines refers to the reasonable ability for people to get needed medicines required to achieve health.[1] Such access is deemed to be part of the right to health as supported by international law since 1946.[2]
The World Health Organization states that essential medicines should be available, of good quality, and accessible.[2] Reasonable access to medicines can be in conflict with intellectual property and free markets.[3] In the developing world people may not get treatment for conditions like HIV/AIDS.[4]
- ^ "WHO Access to medicines". www.who.int. Archived from the original on March 7, 2014. Retrieved 2017-02-10.
- ^ a b "Access to essential medicines as part of the right to health". World Health Organization. Archived from the original on January 10, 2014. Retrieved 10 February 2017.
- ^ "Final Report High-Level Panel on Access to Medicines". Retrieved 10 February 2017.
- ^ Moon, Suerie (9 February 2017). "Powerful Ideas for Global Access to Medicines". New England Journal of Medicine. 376 (6): 505–507. doi:10.1056/NEJMp1613861. PMID 28099819.