1.4 billion people in our world that live on less than $1.25 per day! Medications are the backbone of any health system. Saving lives requires systems where right medicine is produced and is supplied at right place and used in right patient in right amount at right time and right cost.
The latest WHO report on access to medicines, The World Medicines Situation 2011, highlighted the fact that "At least one-third of the world’s population has no regular access to medicines." Access to medicines can be affected by many socioeconomic factors like geographic location, literacy, quality of public sector care, household economic level, and not having health insurance. Apart from these factors, studies have reported that higher level of Intellectual Property Rights limits the access to medicines. Governments, Regulators, NGOs etc try by multiple ways, to promote universal access to medicines.…
