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Ethiopia: Efforts On Child-Appropriate Medicines Intensify - WHO
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The Daily Monitor (Addis Ababa)
6 December 2007
Posted to the web 6 December 2007
Addis Ababa
Efforts to ensure children have better access to medicines appropriate for them intensified with the unveiling on Tuesday of a new research and development agenda by the World Health Organization (WHO).
According to a WHO media statement, the agenda, presented at the London launch of a campaign named make medicines child size, targets a range of medicines - including antibiotics, asthma and pain medication - that need to be better tailored to children's needs.
The agenda also calls for further research and development of combination pills for HIV/AIDS, TB and malaria, as well as appropriate child therapy for a number of neglected tropical diseases.
"The gap between the availability and the need for child-appropriate medicines touches wealthy as well as poor countries," the statement quoted Dr Margaret Chan, WHO Director-General as saying.
"As we strive for equitable access to scientific progress in health, children must be one of our top priorities," she added.
WHO has already begun work to promote increased attention to research into children's medicines.
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The agency is building an Internet portal to clinical trials carried out in children and will publish the web site containing that information early next year.
WHO is also releasing on Tuesday the first international List of Essential Medicines for Children containing 206 medicines that are deemed safe for children and address priority conditions.
The UN agency said however that a lot remains to be done.
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