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Work Of WHO Essential Medicines Department At Risk Due To Funding Shortage, Oxfam Warns
"The work of the essential medicines department of the World Health Organization (WHO) is under threat because of a serious shortage of funds, says a worrying and important letter published in the Lancet [on Thursday]," Guardian Health Editor Sarah Boseley reports in her "Global Health Blog." "According to the letter from Mohga Kamal-Yanni of Oxfam, the work of updating ... the essential medicines list, which tells every health ministry in every corner of the world, however tiny their budget, which drugs they should be getting for their people ... [and] for children, is now being paid for by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation," the blog writes.
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