Mapping a Way to Displaced Persons' Access to Quality Medicines.

AMA J Ethics

Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor of Biomedical Engineering and International Health at Boston University in Massachusetts, where he is also the director of the Center on Forced Displacement.

Published: April 2024

Reliable, adequate supply of essential items, including quality-assured medicines, is hard to maintain in refugee camps in low- and middle-income countries. Disruption of medicine supply chains delays treatment for displaced persons and drives procurement of poor-quality products, often from unauthorized or unlicensed sellers. This article explains how current strategies and policies disrupt reliable flow of safe medicines to refugee camps and calls on stakeholders to rigorously map medicine supply chains to refugee camps, which would help identify strategies to improve displaced persons' access to quality-assured medicines.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/amajethics.2024.341DOI Listing

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