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Transparency in supply chain will improve access to medicines - Ghana Health Minister

Ghana Health Minister speaks about the MeTA process at national MeTA forum

Increased medicines prices a threat to Ghana's National Health Insurance Scheme

Concerns that Ghana's NHIS will not be sustainable unless medicine prices are reduced are voiced at National MeTA Forum

Pharma manufacturers in Ghana

Calls on the Government to adopt measures to develop the capacity of local pharma companies and help improve access to medicines.

Ghanaian civil society wakes up to the threat of fake medicines

A new partnership focuses on patient-centred regulation and policymaking to address medicine and health care access and quality issues in Ghana.

Civil society organisations discuss access to medicines

Read a participant's account of the five-day MeTA CSO workshop in Akosombo, Ghana, in May 2009

Decline in government financial transparency in the Philippines

The Open Budget Survey 2008, ranks the Philippines 34th and has a two point drop in the index used to measure transparency from when the survey was conducted two years ago.

High inefficiency cited in distribution of medicine

A report of the MeTA Ghana launch from the Ghana News Agency