Access to Medicines

Missing the Target #5: Improving AIDS Drug Access and Advancing Health Care for All
This comprehensive report investigates AIDS drug access in 14 countries and finds that high prices, patent and registration barriers, and ongoing stock-outs are core issues impeding better and faster AIDS drug delivery. more

About OSI & Access to Medicines
OSI�s Public Health Program launched the Access to Essential Medicines Initiative to ensure that marginalized populations and people in developing countries have access to medicines such as opioids for pain relief and drug addiction treatment, and medicines for HIV and TB prevention and treatment. more

Benchmarking Antiretroviral Prices in Countries of the Former Soviet Union
May 2008
This report, conducted by the Boston University School of Public Health and funded in part by OSI, benchmarks ARV prices of FSU countries against each other and against global and European region ARV prices—revealing that extreme price variation exists within and across FSU countries for identical ARVs. more

Barriers to Access: Medication-Assisted Treatment and Injection-Driven HIV Epidemics
April 2008
Life-saving, medication-assisted addiction treatment remains largely inaccessible in developing and transitional countries with injection-driven HIV epidemics, as this OSI fact sheet documents. more

Evidence for Harm Reduction
November 2004
"Evidence for Harm Reduction" describes in detail the scientific evidence supporting the effectiveness of harm reduction efforts. more

Moscow AIDS Conference Blocks Drug Treatment Patients, Groups Charge
Press Release
February 14, 2008
In advance of an AIDS conference in Moscow, nearly 90 health and human rights groups from 27 countries petitioned a top health official to allow drug treatment patients to enter Russia with their medications. more

Global South Dialogue on Access to Medicines
India
April 18, 2008
Sixty global advocates, civil society groups, and experts will convene to examine trade, intellectual property, and access to medicines issues at this OSI-supported event. more

OSI Seminar: Community Involvement for Improved Procurement, Supply and Pricing of Antiretroviral and Opioid Substitution Medicines
Kiev, Ukraine
March 5, 2008
OSI convened a seminar in Kiev for activists to address obstacles to providing medicines for HIV and drug addiction treatment in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. more

Advocacy for Palliative Care in Africa: A Focus on Essential Pain Medication Accessibility in Southern Africa
Windhoek, Namibia
February 27, 2008
OSI's International Palliative Care Initiative provided support to the African Palliative Care Association (APCA) to complete a three-day workshop on access to medicines in Southern Africa. more

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