The Selection and Use of Essential Medicines

This report presents the recommendations of the WHO Expert Committee responsible for updating the WHO Model List of Essential Medicines. The first part provides a brief description of the Open Session of the Committee followed by updates on the Model Formulary and the Essential Medicines Library the Priority Medicines Project and current activities in the field of rational use. There are also progress reports on the review of essential medicines for reproductive health and of the New Emergency Health Kit. The second part presents summaries of the Committee's considerations and justifications for the various deletions additions and changes to the Model List. Annexes to the main report include the 14th WHO Model List of Essential Medicines and a list of all items on the Model List sorted according to their 5-level Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical (ATC) classification codes.