U.N. High-Level Panel Event Examines Path To Improving Access To Medicines Worldwide

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“A range of speakers, including top health officials from both a developed and developing country, last week laid out the case for why the world’s leaders must now launch a shift in the way medicines all populations need are developed and priced. The need for global collaboration is clear, speakers said, but who will lead? The 17 July event was titled, ‘U.N. Secretary General’s High-Level Panel on Access to Medicines: Advancing Health-Related SDGs through Policy Coherence.’ The panel came in the context of the U.N. High Political Forum on Sustainable Development taking place during the week at the U.N. headquarters in New York…” (New, 7/23).

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