With technology we create access for delivery of any medical products to remote areas. This can be very helpful for the health system because most of the population in India lives in the urban and remote areas.
The WHO is committed to supporting the SEARN to enhance country cooperation, and in doing so, work towards sharing regulatory resources, she said.
The Digital Drone-based Real Time Advanced Medical Modular logistics system (2 DREAM) model envisages delivering medical products to the point of need or utilisation on a drone.
WHO has received reports of substandard or falsified medical products ranging from cancer treatment to contraception.
The list of participants, speakers and delegates is not on the conference website and most Indian activists and lawyers who have worked on access to medicine have not been invited.
In a major victory for India, which has been pushing hard to get the term "counterfeit" dropped from references to medical products, especially generic medicines, the WHO's technical working group has decided to drop the term and distance itself from any agenda of enforcing intellectual property.
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