Democratic Medicines Policies
Background:
The global environment surrounding medicines policies increasingly fails to include the very people that it most affects – patients, consumers and civil society. It is only through building the capacity of core civil society representatives, particularly in the southern hemisphere, that equity of access to essential drugs and rational use of medicines can be utilised to produce sustainable healthcare policies.
Activities for HAIAP (2007-2010) consists of 2 parts:
3.1 Civil society represented in key policy-making fora -
- Identify key decision-making bodies at national, regional and global level and demand that their decisions reflect input by independent civil society groups.
- Conduct research research to demonstrate that civil society involvement leads to better, sustainable policies.
3.2 Resist the tide towards ‘privatisation of health’ -
- Expose and oppose corporate strategies of ‘instituting influence’, such as paying costs of hospital staff so as to locate their messengers closer to where decisions about prescribing are taken.
Ongoing Projects:
Health Policies & Access to Medicines
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