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Presentation by Wilbert Bannenberg, Technical Director, International MeTA Secretariat on MeTA during the 69th FIP Congress, Istanbul, September 2009.TRANSCRIPT
- 1. Wilbert Bannenberg Technical Director International MeTA Secretariat 5 September 2009, FIP 2009 Congress, Istanbul Medicines Transparency Alliance (MeTA) MeTA FIP 05/09/2009
2. What is MeTA?
- An international alliance between:
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- DFID, World Bank, WHO, private sector, NGOs, professional organisations.
- Alliances in 7 pilot countries to focus on what can be done to increase access to medicines.
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- - Government, CSOs and Private Sector
- An International Secretariat to support country work, and, upon request, technical assistance.
05/09/2009 MeTA FIP 3. What does MeTA want to achieve?
- MeTA goal: toincrease access to essential medicines,especially for the poor in developing countries
- Essential medicines still valid concept
- But, after 30 years, 2 billion people are still not having access
- What can we do better?
05/09/2009 MeTA FIP 4. Added value of MeTA?
- Country led, bottom-up approach
- Multi-stakeholder collaboration
- Improvedtransparencyanddisclosureof all players should lead to betterinformation& greateraccountabilityin the supply chain
05/09/2009 MeTA FIP 5. The scope of MeTA
- Currently 7 countries are piloting MeTA (until September 2010)
- Global collaboration with private sector, NGOs, donors and professional organisations
05/09/2009 MeTA FIP 6. Transparency?
- Improving information access, scrutiny and use, in order to support the development of viable, efficient medicines markets and supply systems that benefit all developing country consumers
- Transparency =not only disclosureof the price, quality of medicines; but also:
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- Jointlyuse the informationto identify barriers, and
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- Jointly seek bettersolutions!
MeTA FIP 05/09/2009 7. Drug Supply Transparent? Source: SSDS Inc for the World Bank 8. Transparent? 05/09/2009 MeTA FIP Source: TI Global corruption report 2006 9. Areas where transparency can help 05/09/2009 MeTA FIP Source: TI Global corruption report 2006 10. Transparency in pharmacy practice?
- Transparencyshould be an integral part of Good Pharmacy Practice!
- Pharmacistscan help in both public and private sector
- Welcome in MeTA!
05/09/2009 MeTA FIP 11. Contact?
- Wilbert Bannenberg
- [email_address]
- Mobile: +31-6-20873123
- MeTA website:www.MedicinesTransparency.org
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