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Medicines Transparency Alliance - Access to medicines

One person in three – two billion people – lacks access to essential medicines. Millions die every year from HIV and AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, pneumonia, measles, diarrhoea, heart disease and stroke. Yet medicines exist for nearly all these problems. The Medicines Transparency Alliance (MeTA), aims to help people get the medicines they need. Its chosen tools are information and accountability.



In each of seven countries – Ghana, Jordan, Kyrgyzstan, Peru, the Philippines, Uganda and Zambia – particiating in the pilot phase of MeTA, representatives of government, private sector and civil society are looking at every link in the medicines supply chain, from manufacturer to patient. read more»

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