Stakeholders Must ‘Fully Engage’ If WHO’s Medicines Access Platform Is To Succeed
Executive Summary
Delegates at the European Health Forum Gastein outlined the challenges facing an international effort to improve access to costly new medicines across the World Health Organization’s European region, insisting that the key issues had to be addressed “collectively” and without “finger pointing.”
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