nternational organizations give funds to fight poverty on the short term, but development requires strategies and economic resources on the long term.
The Millennium Project is a consultant team subdivided in work groups, each of which issues recommendations to achieve a Goal, in order to modify development institutions' policies.
Governments in the North and international organizations
- Encourage public research both in developed and developing countries, in order to dedicate resources and efforts to forgotten illnesses.
- Revise the patent system and agreements undersigned at World Trade Organization Ministerial Conferences to promote access to drugs in developing countries.
- Strengthen surveillance systems and avoid the trade of low quality drugs, in order to promote drug safety.
- Develop drugs in pediatric doses, due to the demographics of developing countries.
Governments in the South
- Guarantee available, safe, affordable and rationally used drugs.
- Increase the importance of essential drugs in public budgets, which are mainly generic, affordable and high quality.
- In order to ensure access to drugs at affordable prices, developing countries have to use the protection clauses included in the Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPs) agreement.
Development NGOs
- Establish strategies to guarantee access to essential drugs.
- Drug donations are not the solution to the problem, but they can help. However, they should be done in adequate conditions and following the WHO guidelines.
- Encourage the rational use of drugs, educating health professionals as well as the population.
- Prescribe whenever it's possible, drugs under their generic name and taking under consideration the list of essential drugs in each country.
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