essential medicine

collocation in English

meaningsofessentialandmedicine

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essential
adjective
uk
/ɪˈsen.ʃəl/
us
/ɪˈsen.ʃəl/
necessary ...
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medicine
noun
uk
/ˈmed.ɪ.sən/
us
/ˈmed.ɪ.sən/
treatment for illness or injury, or the study ...
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(Definition ofessentialandmedicinefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Accordingly, the national list of essential medicines should be constantly updated to meet the evolving needs of the population.
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On the national and global levels, policies, rules, and institutions must be conducive to the realization of the right to essential medicines.
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Such alternative innovation systems must be designed to prioritize the right to essential medicines.
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Commercially driven voluntary licenses present a more unorthodox but potentially profitable means of satisfying developing country demand for essential medicines.
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Accordingly, they must ensure that international agreements relating to the protection of intellectual property do not result in violation of the human right to essential medicines.
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Medicines that are vital for the saving and preserving of life in conditions of public health emergency or endemic serious disease are known as essential medicines.
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The price of patented medicines is a major barrier to the realization of the human right to share in scientific advancement and its benefits, including innovations in essential medicines.
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International human rights contained in international and regional treaties are legally binding and often enforceable standards and norms for state action in relation to essential medicines.
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There is no import duty on essential medicines, surgical instruments or theatre equipment.
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Affordable prices are a key component of strategies to improve access to essential medicines in developing countries.
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We called for new models of medical innovation and for tackling the lack of access to affordable essential medicines.
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So far as the purpose of the deposit scheme is to reduce the level of imports, essential medicines should be exempt.
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The initial focus was, rightly, on securing adequate supplies of the most essential medicines and vaccines.
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We can accept experiments on animals for the development and testing of essential medicines.
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The high cost of drugs is a key barrier to poor people's ability to access essential medicines.
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The oil for food programme started in 1996 has been excessively bureaucratic and incompetent, resulting in long delays in procuring essential medicines and food supplies.
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That is a high tightrope to fall off when £20 a week is being spent on essential medicines.
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Thirdly, we must put provisions in place which enable the production of generic versions of essential medicines that are still patented but that are unaffordable in developing countries.
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