Access to medicines in the context of the right-to-health framework 2013, para. 20
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- According to the right-to-health framework, medicines should be economically accessible to all sectors of the population. Medicines should therefore be priced in a fair and equitable manner and be affordable so as to not disproportionately burden poorer households. This is an even greater problem in developing countries, where up to two-thirds of expenditure on medicines is individually financed through out-of-pocket payments. Such payments are primarily responsible for catastrophic health expenditures, annually pushing approximately 100 million people, mostly in developing countries, into poverty. Ensuring affordable and equitable pricing of essential medicines is therefore a key determinant of access to medicines in most developing countries.
- Legal status
- Non-negotiated soft law
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Means of adoption
- N.A.
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2013
- Paragraph type
- Other
- Reference
- SR Health, Report to the HRC (2013), A/HRC/23/42, para. 20.
- Paragraph number
- 20
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