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    Delivering essential medicines / edited by Amir Attaran and Brigitte Granville.

    • Title:Delivering essential medicines / edited by Amir Attaran and Brigitte Granville.
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    • Other Contributors/Collections:Attaran, Amir.
      Granville, Brigitte.
      Royal Institute of International Affairs.
    • Published/Created:London : Chatham House ; Washington, DC : Distributed worldwide by Brookings Institution, 2004.
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    • Medical Subjects:Drugs, Essential--economics.
      Developing Countries.
      Drugs, Essential--supply & distribution.
      Health Policy.
      Health Services Accessibility--economics.
    • Description:xvi, 192 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.
    • Notes:Includes bibliographical references.
    • ISBN:1862031509 (hardback)
      1862031495 (pbk.)
    • Contents:1. Why do the poor lack access to essential medicines? / Louisiana Lush
      2. From health to wealth and back to health / Alexander S. Preker
      3. Responding to health crises : the frustrations of a small African country / Anne C. Conroy, Justin C. Malewezi, Bizwick Mwale and Richard Pendame
      4. Economic regulatory frameworks for the pharmaceutical sector in middle-income countries / Jim Attridge and Rifat Atun
      5. Joint public-private initiatives and developing-country health systems / Annie Heaton
      6. Partnership for action : the experience of the Accelerating Access Initiative, 2000-04, and lessons learned / Jeffrey L. Sturchio
      7. Non-profit drug distribution : the experience of the International Dispensary Association / Henk den Besten and Joseph Gonzi
      8. Understanding patents and out-licensing in the procurement of anti-retroviral medicines / Amir Attaran
      9. Who needs to do what? / Amir Attaran and Brigitte Granville.
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