Measuring medicine prices, availability, affordability and price components

Margaret EwenHealth Action International

WHO/HAI Project on Medicine Prices and Availability

improve the availability and affordability of essential medicines

Develop a reliable methodology for collecting and analysing price and availability data across healthcare sectors in a country

Price transparency; survey data on a freely accessible website allowing international comparisons

Advocate for appropriate pricing policies and programmes, and monitor their impact

• Measures medicine prices availability affordability component costs

• Revision based on the experiences of 55+ surveys undertaken in all regions of the world

Survey tools and data: www.haiweb.org/medicineprices

Second edition of the WHO/HAI survey manual

Availablenow

What’s new in the manual? Methodology changes – sampling, medicines,

measuring price components New guidance on international comparisons,

policy options, advocacy and monitoring Expanded workbook & new resources

Regional workshops on new manual & tools2008: Anglophone Africa, Eastern Mediterranean, Asia

2009: Francophone Africa, possibly other regions

WHO/HAI and international pricing policy expertsDeveloping guidance on policies that affect medicine

prices and their impact in various settings