Essential medicines and access to insulin

Geoff Gill, John S Yudkin, Solomon Tesfaye, Maximilian de Courten, Edwin Gale, Ayesha Motala, Kaushik Ramaiya, Nigel Unwin, Sarah Wild

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Abstract

We fully support the views expressed in The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology's Editorial about ensuring affordable access to insulin and the proposal to add analogue insulin to the WHO Essential Medicines list. The International Insulin Foundation in its 2011 position statement called for “the universal access for persons with type 1 diabetes to life-saving and life-preserving insulin”. In 2012, we launched the 100 Campaign, which sets the target of 100% affordability and 100% availability of insulin worldwide by the year 2022 (100 years after the introduction of insulin for people with diabetes).
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)324-325
Number of pages2
JournalLancet Diabetes and Endocrinology
Volume5
Issue number5
Early online date15 Mar 2017
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 May 2017

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