title: Essential drugs should be accessible to all people.
abstract: In Rwanda some 70% of the people do not have regular access to essential drugs and there are chronic drug shortages in government health facilities where drugs are provided free of charge. The cost recovery system recommended by the Bamako Initiative Programme can be expected to increase the availability of essential drugs, but access to them will undoubtedly remain difficult for many people unless they receive financial assistance enabling them to pay for prescribed medicines.
authors.affiliation: Action Programme on Essential Drugs, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Habiyambere
authors.forename: A I
authors.initials: AI
authors.lastname: Wertheimer
mesh_terms: D003906:Developing Countries; D004358:Drug Therapy; D016568:Drugs, Generic / Q000600:supply & distribution; D006297:Health Services Accessibility; D006801:Humans; D004364:Pharmaceutical Preparations / Q000600:supply & distribution*; D012432:Rwanda; D014944:World Health Organization
chemical_list: D016568:Drugs, Generic; D004364:Pharmaceutical Preparations