Measuring Medicine Prices
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Measuring medicine prices, availability, affordability and price components
Margaret EwenHealth Action International
WHO/HAI Project on Medicine Prices and Availability
improve the availability and affordability of essential medicines
Develop a reliable methodology for collecting and analysing price and availability data across healthcare sectors in a country
Price transparency; survey data on a freely accessible website allowing international comparisons
Advocate for appropriate pricing policies and programmes, and monitor their impact
• Measures medicine prices availability affordability component costs
• Revision based on the experiences of 55+ surveys undertaken in all regions of the world
Survey tools and data: www.haiweb.org/medicineprices
Second edition of the WHO/HAI survey manual
Availablenow
What’s new in the manual? Methodology changes – sampling, medicines,
measuring price components New guidance on international comparisons,
policy options, advocacy and monitoring Expanded workbook & new resources
Regional workshops on new manual & tools2008: Anglophone Africa, Eastern Mediterranean, Asia
2009: Francophone Africa, possibly other regions
WHO/HAI and international pricing policy expertsDeveloping guidance on policies that affect medicine
prices and their impact in various settings