WHO Model list of essential medicines
The WHO Model List of Essential Medicines is a simple tool allowing users to quickly produce a national essential medicines list in line with current WHO guidelines. It includes antimalarial medicines in section 6.5.3.
- Tool Designer Organization:
- World Health Organization (WHO)
- Download:
- The tool from WHO web site
- Contacts:
- WHO
Summary of main features
- Purpose
- Can be used when developing a national list of essential medicines, as well as hospital and PHC lists. It can be used by drug and therapeutic committees at national and facility levels, and it can aid in procurement and training activities
- Scope of interventions
- ACTs, IPT, quinine
- Limitations
- None
- Output
- List of essential medicines that meet selection criteria for quality, safety, and efficacy
- Time frame
- NA
- Potential users
- Health workers and policymakers, procurement and training activities at all levels (national/central, regional/district, facility)
- Skills required
- No particular skills are required
- Type of software
- Adobe PDF
- User manual available?
- No
- Type and length of training required
- None
- Available languages
- Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, Spanish
- Country applications
- Last update and version
- March 2007 - 15th edition