Product Policies, Access and Manufacturing Support Unit

In May 2018, the World Health Assembly (WHA) adopted resolution WHA71.8 on improving access to assistive technology. The resolution urges Member States...

The report summarizes a collaboration between the Ministry of Health of the United Republic of Tanzania, HelpAge Tanzania and the World Health Organization...

This report summarizes a collaboration between the Ministry of Health of Ukraine and the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2022 and 2023. The goal was...

From 3 to 5 December 2024, the World Health Organization (WHO), in collaboration with the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), convened a regional...

The AWaRe classification is intended as a tool for monitoring antibiotic use, defining targets and monitoring the impact of stewardship policies and interventions...

Essential medicines are those that satisfy the priority health care needs of a population. They are selected with due regard to disease prevalence and...

Essential medicines are those that satisfy the priority health care needs of a population. They are selected with due regard to disease prevalence and...

This executive summary reports the recommendations made by the Expert Committee on Selection and Use of Essential Medicines for the 2025 update of the...

The Technical report of the fourth meeting of the WHO Strategic Advisory Group of Experts on In Vitro Diagnostics, 2022 (including the fourth WHO model...

Lateral-flow rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) continue to play a vital role in global health in the management and diagnosis of infectious diseases, including...

This document intends to provide guidance to countries on methods for developing and updating national lists of essential in vitro diagnostics (NEDL)....

Post-market surveillance is a set of activities conducted by manufacturers, to collect and evaluate experience gained from medical devices that have...

A first edition of the Development of Medical Devices Policies was published in 2011. This second edition was prepared to reflect the transition from the...

The WHO list of priority medical devices for management of cardiovascular diseases and diabetes, https://iris.who.int/handle/10665/341967, describes those...

Health-care technology has played a fundamental role in medicine for centuries, evolving with scientific advances to improve patient diagnosis, treatment...

HTA is a multidisciplinary process used to evaluate the clinical, economic, ethical implications and social impact of new health technologies. This...