[india-drug] [e-drug] Essential Drug Successes

["Dr. Richard Laing" <richardl@bu.edu>]

(May I request all state coordinators working in India for Essential
drugs program, to kindly share their experiences, so that a compilation
of all these could reach Dr. Laing  as the program from India!!.
Thanks?SS)


(WIth thanks form Edrug....SS)

Essential Drug Successes
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I have been asked to be lead author on a chapter in the next edition of
Disease Control Priorities in Developing Countries on Ensuring Supplies
of Appropriate Drugs and Medicines. As part of this activity I have
been asked to identify "successes"

This is what the editors have asked.

To build an evidence-base concerning implementation success stories,
the
DCPP is cosponsoring an initiative with the Global Health Policy
Research Network (PRN), which has recently been established by the Bill
& Melinda Gates Foundation and is coordinated by the Center for Global
Development in Washington, DC.  Through the careful examination of
successes (and failures) in implementation, this initiative will
attempt to identify key contributors to the enormous gains in health of
the past half century, and to identify factors that are "actionable"
for replicating these successes.

I have a number of ideas as to what I would suggest are successes worth
documenting but I thought it would be useful to throw this process open
to the E-Drug membership. While you are free to reply only to me I 
suspect that most E-Druggers would like to read the suggestions. If 
you have a reference to an article or a specific person do send that 
as well.

I look forward to your suggestions.

Richard Laing

Associate Professor
Department of International Health
Boston University School of Public Health
  Tel  617414-1444
Fax  617 638-4476
E-mail: richardl@bu.edu
http://dcc2.bumc.bu.edu/richardl/


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