Goal one: ensure safe, effective,
high-quality pharmaceutical and health products through a more
robust assurance system and regulatory oversight. Goal two:
anticipate and address shortages of essential drugs. Goal three:
manage challenges related to access to new treatments and
protect populations from financial hardship. These are the main
goals that WHO Europe, the Executive Secretariat of the Central
European Initiative and the European Observatory on Health
Policies and Systems aim to meet, bringing together in Trieste
experts from 10 EU and EU candidate countries - Italy, Slovenia,
Poland, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, North Macedonia,
Montenegro, Serbia, Ukraine and Moldova - to build a resilient
pharmaceutical and health commodity system in the Western
Balkans and other pre-accession countries.
The two-day event kicked off this morning and will focus on
strengthening pharmaceutical and health product systems. "One of
the WHO's priorities is Universal health coverage, which has
several issues to be addressed in the target countries: health
services, workforce, and resources."
These are elements that strengthen the capacity to meet
citizens' needs and improve the accessibility of services,"
explained Gian Matteo Apuzzo, focal point of the WHO Europe
Western Balkans roadmap's policy and health systems division.
"In this sense, WHO works directly in countries based on needs
and involves several countries to build a common approach to
solve problems on which they cannot be left alone. And this is
an activity we also do in collaboration with geographic area
organizations such as CEI."
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