29.5.2019
Access to medicines is a key issue in global health. However, ensuring access implies not only the availability of new technologies in the marketplace, it is also essential that these should be affordable and used in a rational way.
With different nuances depending on their political health systems, all countries, in one way or another, face difficulties in assuring access to medicines. And I emphasise the word “political” because when we talk about public policy, in addition to the scientific knowledgethat allows us to design strategies based on evidence, there are always important government decisions.
