Posted by Michael Wonder on 04 Sep 2019
How moves towards universal health coverage could encourage poor quality drugs: an essay by Elizabeth Pisani
4 September 2019 - Universal health coverage depends on affordable medicines.
But pushing down prices without also investing in quality assurance will increase the sale of substandard and falsified drugs, warns Elizabeth Pisani
Many governments in middle income countries are working hard to deliver on political promises that all their citizens will have access to quality health services, without being impoverished.
They are finding that universal health coverage doesn’t come cheap.
