Guidelines for drug donations.

Hogerzeil HV; Couper MR; Gray R

doi:10.1136/bmj.314.7082.737

Guidelines for drug donations.

Hogerzeil HV, Couper MR, Gray R

BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 1997 · doi:10.1136/bmj.314.7082.737 · PMID:9116555 · PMC2126144

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The World Health Organization issued new guidelines for drug donations, summarizing their development process, core principles of good practice, and providing practical advice for recipients and donor agencies.

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This article summarizes the development and core principles of new World Health Organization guidelines designed to standardize drug donation practices for both acute emergencies and long-term development aid. It outlines a common framework for good donation practice that applies regardless of whether donations originate from governments, non-governmental organizations, or private entities. The text provides practical advice for recipient countries and donor agencies while detailing the consultation process involving major international humanitarian bodies. The paper does not explicitly discuss endometriosis or adenomyosis; it was included in the corpus via a keyword match in the upstream search index.

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Drug donations are usually given in response to acute emergencies, but they can also be part of development aid. Donations may be given directly by governments, by non-governmental organisations, as corporate donations (direct or through private voluntary organisations), or as private donations to single health facilities. Although there are legitimate differences between these donations, basic rules should apply to them all. This common core of "good donation practice" is the basis for new guidelines which have recently been issued by the World Health Organisation after consultation with all relevant United Nations agencies, the Red Cross, and other major international agencies active in humanitarian emergency relief. This article summarises the need for such guidelines, the development process, the core principles, and the guidelines themselves and gives practical advice to recipients and donor agencies.

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Abstract Drug donations are usually given in response to acute emergencies, but they can also be part of development aid. Donations may be given directly by governments, by non-governmental organisations, as corporate donations (direct or through private voluntary organisations), or as private donations to single health facilities. Although there are legitimate differences between these donations, basic rules should apply to them all. This common core of "good donation practice" is the basis for new guidelines which have recently been issued by the World Health Organisation after consultation with all relevant United Nations agencies, the Red Cross, and other major international agencies active in humanitarian emergency relief. This article summarises the need for such guidelines, the development process, the core principles, and the guidelines themselves and gives practical advice to recipients and donor agencies. Full Text The Full Text of this article is available as a PDF (352.6 KB).

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