Welcome to MeTA

Medicines Transparency Alliance (MeTA) is a multi-stakeholder alliance working to improve access and affordability of medicines for the one-third of the world’s population unable to access essential medicines due to high cost or local unavailability.

The Benefits of MeTA:

Promotes transparency
Generates accountability
Increases collaboration

Encourages equity
Improves efficiency
Advocates for access to medicines

Key issues

Prices
The most effective medicines in the world are useless if they are priced too high
Quality
When you take your pill, you want to be sure that it is of good quality
Availability
One in every three people in the world does not have the basic medicines they need
Promotion
Medicines' promotion to agencies, professionals and users should adhere to strict ethical standards
Transparency & accountability
Information is power – if it is acted on
Multi-stakeholder working
Bringing together the people and organisations that can make change, that can be held to account and hold others to account