Access to Essential Medicines

Welcome to the ukAM07 wiki - a wiki to introduce the issue of Access to Essential Medicines. 

Currently 10 million people die every year, mostly from low/middle-income countries, because they do not have access to essential medicines. Access to Essential Medicines is one of the hottest topics in healthcare in the world today and encompasses a wide variety of international health issues.

First:

The introductory video highlights many of the issues surrounding Access to Essential Medicines and is available in two formats depending on your internet connection:

High band (opens automatically in your media player)

Low band (opens automatically in your media player)

Second:

Click here to read a short introduction to Access to Essential Medicines.

Third:

Begin the modules - there is lots for you to learn about! First do the module, then answer some questions to test your new knowledge:

1. International Determinants of Drug Availability: TRIPS, patents for drugs and the WTO

    

2. Access to medicines or access to healthcare?  Ensuring access for all in a globalised world

    

3. Neglected diseases and neglected people: Solving the Research Gap

    

4. Ensuring "reliable supply systems" for Essential Medicines

    

5. Solutions and strategies: Tackling the issue of Access to Essential Medicines 

For the keen and interested among you please read the 'Access Denied' Reading List by clicking here. There you will find key references to read before the conference.

This site contains videos, tutorials, articles and other resources relating to Access to Essential Medicines. They are freely available. If you would like to contribute, or have any points/questions to make then please feel free to email themeteam@ukam2007.org. 

Content input is as follows:

- Module 1: Jonathan Currie

    - Module 2: Jonathan Currie

    - Module 3: Jonathan Currie

    - Module 4: Neha Jain & Laura Mason

    - Module 5: Sunil Bhopal & Jonathan Currie

Formatting and images by Sunil Bhopal and Ruth Russell.  In no way do these recognitions of contribution constitute ownership of intellectual property rights (or copyright), ironic though this would be.