ArticleCureus2023
Indian Essential Medicine List for Children: Time to Revisit.
Article in Cureus, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.
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- Pediatric formulations in national essential medicines lists: a cross-sectional study.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2025Article
- Antiretroviral medications for pediatric use in the context of the Unified Health System: are there therapeutic gaps in Brazil?Revista paulista de pediatria : orgao oficial da Sociedade de Pediatria de Sao Paulo · 2025Article
- Advancing pediatric drug development in South Asia: Current landscape and vision for the future.Indian journal of pharmacology · 2024Article
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Abstract
backgroundThe majority of the under five mortality rate (U5MR) in India were due to treatable causes and could have been prevented by providing quality medicines. Availability and affordability of medicine can be improved by the introduction of essential medicine concepts. PURPOSE: The current study was carried out to compare the latest edition of the WHO essential medicine list for children (EMLc) with that of Indian EMLc to determine the need to update the Indian EMLc.
methodsA descriptive observational study was carried out in the Department of Pharmacology of a tertiary care hospital. The latest edition of WHO EMLc (8
resultsIn total 134 medicines are present in Indian EMLc as compared to 350 medicines in WHO EMLc. The important categories which are completely missing in Indian EMLc are medicines for reproductive health and perinatal care, peritoneal dialysis solution, medicines for mental and behavioral disorders, and medicines for diseases of joints. The important medicines which are not included in Indian EMLc are bedaquilline, delaminid, cefixime, piperacillin+tazobactum, vancomycin, acyclovir, azathioprine, cisplatin, and filgrastim. Important vaccines including rotavirus, cholera, hepatitis, and typhoid vaccine are not mentioned in Indian EMLc.
conclusionThere is an urgent need to update the Indian EMLc in order to promote access to pediatric medicine and facilitate the rational use of medicines.
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