Medicines Buyers Clubs: Collaborative approaches to increase access to affordable and quality-assured medicines

Medicines play a vital role in preventing illness, curing disease, and protecting public health. However, ensuring access to affordable, quality-assured medicines remains a global challenge.

Medicines Buyers Clubs delves into two collaborative initiatives that are currently being adopted to improve access to affordable, quality-assured medicines: pooled procurement mechanisms and pharmaceutical track & trace systems. One focuses on bringing such medicines into the supply chain, while the other ensures their safe delivery to patients.

It explores the preconditions necessary for setting up such collaborations and provides insights into how they evolve over time, from the initial promise and creation stages to early operations and maturation. It also explores the work and efforts needed to align goals and sustain collaboration among various actors.

Spanning all continents, this book offers rich insights, real-world examples, and practical tools for policymakers, practitioners, scholars, and anyone interested in collaborative approaches to improving access to affordable medicines that work.