Access to affordable essential medicines

There are few international commitments in relation to the provision of medicines other than those for the three high-profile diseases, HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria. These are addressed under MDG 6 and their progress is monitored annually in The Millennium Development Goals Report. Existing commitments regarding medicines often lack quantitative targets and, unlike the other commitments addressed in this report, usually do not refer to either the aggregate global or the country-level supply. This makes it difficult to both measure a “delivery gap” with regard to global commitments and assess the distribution of benefits across countries (the “coverage gap”).

Sustainable Development Goals:

Partnerships for the Goals