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The PHARMACY TOOLBOX is a comprehensive knowledge repository to provide its users with practical, up-to-date information on medicines and good pharmaceutical practices. It collates basic documents on (essential) medicines, guidelines, rational use, access, and good quality of medicines. All health workers who prescribe, handle or dispense medicines find an electronic key pharmacy knowledge hub. 

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Updated 10 August 2020 This document presents an essential medicines list (EML) to manage patients in intensive care units (ICUs) with suspected or confirmed COVID-19 diagnosis, which includes active ingredients with dosage form and concentration, and are preferably in the WHO Model Lists of Essent ... more
Interagency Guidelines; Medicines and medical devices for 10 000 people for approximately three month.
The Malawian government recently introduced cost-covering consultation fees for self-referral patients in tertiary public hospitals. Previously, patients received medicines free of charge in government-owned health facilities, but must pay elsewhere. Before the government implements a payment policy ... more
Sector Environmental Guidelines, Full technical Update
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Where There Are No Pharmacists

Sarah Andersson; Beverley Snell Third World Network; Health Action International Asia Pacific (2019) C2
2nd edition. A Guide to Managing Medicines for All Health Workers. Available for purchase via following link https://www.twn.my/title2/books/HAI.htm Where there are no trained pharmacists serving communities, other categories of health workers are called upon to order, buy, store, dispense and ad ... more
The 2018 Access to Medicine Index finds that the pharmaceutical industry continues to mature in its approach to access to medicine, with models for good practice in areas such as access planning and licensing. GSK retains its No. 1 position, as Novartis moves up into 2nd. Takeda rises furthest in 20 ... more
Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM) is one of the greatest child survival challenges in the world today and reportedly affects more than 16.2 million children each year1. High impact, proven treatment interventions exist yet sadly approximately only 3.2 million children with SAM have access to treatme ... more
Annex 7
Septième (7ème) édition de la liste nationale des médicaments essentiels, cinquiême (5ème) édition de la liste nationale des produits pharmaceutiques d'urgence, quatrième (4ème) édition de la liste nationale des réactifs essentiels pour l'analyses de biologie médicale. La présente é ... more
Essential Medicines and Health Products Information Portal
Med J DY Patil Univ 2017;10:229-33
В настоящем документе подчеркиваются основные аспекты организации безопасного управления медицинскими отходами для того, чтобы лица, вырабатывающие политику, п ... more
Essential Medicines are those that satisfy the priority health care needs of the population. They are selected with due regard to public health relevance, evidence on efficacy, safety and comparative cost-effectiveness. This edition of the Essential Medicines List (EML) 2017 for Ghana has been deriv ... more

Improving Access to and Appropriate Use of Medicines for Mental Disorders

Corrado Barbui, Tarun Dua, Kavitha Kolappa et al. World Health Organization and Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (2017) C_WHO