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The Challenge and Exploration of Children’s
 Access to Medicines in BRICS Countries
  from the View of Achieving the MDGs:
        Taking China for Example

                    Lingli Zhang
 West China Second University Hospital, Sichuan University
         Chinese Evidence-based Medical Centre
                     INRUD, China
                BRICS Medicines Alliance
The Challenge and Exploration of Children's Access to Medicines in BRICS Countries from the View of Achieving the MDGs: Taking China for Example ...
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Content

  The Millennium Development Goals

  Our efforts

  Recommendations
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 The MDGs and challenge of children’s access to
medicines

  In 2000, 8 Millennium Development Goals were agreed by
   country leaders from 189 countries at the UN Millennium
   Summit

  The 4th Goal: Reduce child mortality by two thirds
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 The progress and gap of the MDGs:Goal 4

                                                15
                    Developed regions
                                            6

                                                                                                      99
                   Developing regions
                                                                       53

                                                                                             81
                      BRICS countries
                                                          32

                                        0        20            40           60          80           100           120

                                                                                 1990    2013        2015 target

Source: 1.United Nation. The Millennium Development Goals Report 2014. 2, UN data. http://data.un.
org/Default.aspx.2.
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   DALYs(Disability-adjusted life years) of
    different ages in global

Source: Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME).GBD Cause Patterns. Seattle, WA: IHME, University of
Washington, 2013
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  WHO proposes
 • Reaching the MDGs on reducing child mortality requires
   universal coverage with effective and affordable
   interventions
 • Medicine is one of the most important measures
 • Rational medicine treatment and prevention could avoid
   8.1 million children under 5 years old from death each
   year

Source:1.WHO.Target 4.A: Reduce by two thirds, between 1990 and 2015, the under-five mortality rate. http:/
/www.who.int /topics /millennium _development _goals/child_mortality/en/. 2. Levels & Trends in Child Mortality,
Report 2014. The UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation. http://www.unicef.org/media /files/
Levels_and_Trends_in_Child_Mortality_2014.pdf
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  The current situation of children’s access to medicines
 • Lack of medicines exclusive for children:Many medicines for
   priority diseases are not developed for children; and when they
   are they are not reaching the children who need them most
 • Lack of children appropriate dosages and specifications: Medical
   staffs and guardians of children tend to use reduced-dose adult
   medicines, as well as crush tablets or dissolve capsules in water
   to prepare medicines for children
 • Lack of cost-effectiveness of medicines for children:The few
   existing paediatric fixed dose combinations developed for
   children are generally three times more expensive than the adult
   dosage form
  China for example: a survey of medicines used in pediatrics in 15
   hospitals during 2011-2013
   Total:1098,Medicines exclusive for chilidren:45, accounting for
   4.1%
Source:1.WHO, Background Information: Child-specific medicines, http://www.who.int/childmedicines/edia/
backgrounder/BG1/en/. 2.Zhang Lingli,Li Youping et.al, Pediatric Drug Shortage in China: Current Status and
Reflection. Chin J Evid-based Med 2012,12(10):1159-1164
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 Our efforts
 Efforts in promoting children’s access to medicines in China
                     • 2011 National Program of Action for Child Development in China (2011 -2020)
                     • 2011 CFDA policy research project:Survey on the suggestion of legislation for packaging for
                       child medicines
                     • 2012 Established the new INRUD China Core Centreled by the Director of Medical
                       Administration of M.O.H., including the investigation on the management of vulnerables.
 National actions    • 2012 M.O.H. proposed "Healthy China 2020"
                     • 2013 China National Formulation for Children
                     • 2014 Proposed resolution of“Access to Essential medicines” to WHA,which was passed
                     • 2014 6 Ministries issued Several Opinions on Security of Medications in Children
                     • 2014 Established the Surveillance Network of Antibiotics Use in Children

 Multi-department    •2012 Symposium on Medication in Children led by the CPPCC, CFDA,MOH and the
                      State Administration of TCM
  coordination       • 2014 6 Ministries issued Several Opinions on Security of Medications in Children

                     •2011 Supplement Medicines Additional Catalogue of Sichuan Province in Primary
  Policy support      Care to National Essential Medicines
                     • 2012 National Essential Medicine List added medicines ,dosages and specifications for children
                     • 2013 CFDA Opinions on Deepening the Reform of Medicine Evaluation and Approval,
                       Further Encouraging MedicineInnovation

                     • 2014 Bidding programs of Medicine Policy of M.O.H on policy research of medication in Children:
 Technical Support     Survey on dosage and administration of children’s essential medicines; Investigation on priorly
                       encouraging the development of children appropriate dosages and specifications; Comparitive study of
                       appropriate dosages and specifications of children’s essential medicines at home and abroad
                     • 2014 Guiding Principles on Research Techniques of Pediatric Population's Pharmacokinetics
                     • 2014 Technical Guidelines for Clinical Trials of Pediatric Medicines
    Continuous       • 2014 M.O.H Major Project on Development and Production of New Medicines: children’s diseases

   follow-up and     • 2015 M.O.H Bidding Subject: Assessment of the Implementation of the WHA Proposal
   improvement
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WHA Resolution: Access to Essential medicines

• In 2014, the Resolution of Access
  to Essential Medicines was
  proposed and passed at the WHA
  -Focus on medication in children
   Urges member states: to place greater
   emphasis on medicines for children
   and to promote the availability,
   affordability, quality and safety of
   essential medicines for access to these
   medicineschildren through the
   development and manufacture of
   appropriate paediatric formulations
   and to facilitate market
  -Highly praised by Margaret Chan, the
   Director General of the WHO
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2014 Security of Medications in Children
                                               Drug Policy and Essential Medicine System
                                               Department of National Health and Family
                                               Planning Commission

Jointly issued by the National Health and Family
Planning Commission, the National Development Press conference of China Central
and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Industry Television and China National
and Information Technology, the Ministry of
Human Resources and Social Security, CFDA and Radio
the State Administration of TCM and focus on
encouraging R&D, accelerating application and
evaluation, guaranteeing production and supply,
improving the rational use of medicines in children
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Including Children’s Medicines in EML

• 2011, Supplement Medicines Additional Catalogue of Sichuan
  to National Essential Medicines
    Sichuan Department of Health firstly included 23 medicines and dosage
    forms for children (29.5%) in provincial additional catalogue to national
    EML
• 2012, National Essential Medicine List added medicines
  dosages and specifications for children
   -All National Immunization Programme Vaccines for children were
    included
   -200 medicines are available for children, 70 of which are exclusive dosage
    forms and specifications for children
  -Alleviated the shortage of children’s medication to some extent
Source:1.The announcement of Sichuan Health Department on publishing National Essential Medicines Sichuan
Province Primary Supplement Medicines Additional Catalogue. 2.National Health and Family Planning Commission
of PRC, the 2012 edition National Essential Medicine List published
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Evaluation of After Effect

   • 2015 M.O.H. Bidding Subject: Assessment of the
     Implementation of the WHA Proposal
                                                             Drug Policy and Essential Medicine
                                                             System Department of National Health
                                                             and Family Planning Commission
                                                             The Bidding of 2015 National Subject of
                                                             Drug Policy Department of M.O.H.

Project 7: The Assessment of the Implementation of the WHA Proposal
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National Research Platform for Rational Use of
Medicines in Vulnerables
• International Network for the Rational Use of Drugs (INRUD), China
  Zongjiu Zhang, the Director of Medical Administration of M.O.H.,
  served as the leader
• In 2012, Medication Management of People with Highest Risk of Drug
  Exposure, INRUD, China
  Prof. Lingli Zhang served as the group leader
  Lead research and evidence production of rational medication in high-
  risk people(children, pregnant women and old people) among more than
  70 hospitals around China               hospitals
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 April,2012 the conference of INRUD China   The distribution of the High-risk People Medication
                                            Management Group members
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Achievements
• What China has achieved by implementing relevant policies Essential
   medicine system
    -The essential medicine system has covered all government-run primary
     medical institutions
    -Established new purchasing mechanism for essential medicines
    -Promoted the comprehensive reform of primary medical institutions
    -The essential medicine system has been extended
    -Initially formed the framework of the essential medicine system policies
• Several Opinions on Security of Medications in Children
    -Present the first list of development-encouraging medicines for children
   (Prof. Lingli Zhang’s team)
   -Organize related institutions to investigate pilot children’s medicines, which
    can be included into exclusive application and evaluation access, and be
    given priority to package insert revision
   -Study and improve consensus and guidelines on children’s medication, data
    of children’s medication
  -The CFDA is set to speed up the approval progress for some kinds of
   children’s medicines
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 Other BRICS countries
• South Africa
   In 1998,released the first editon of Standard Treatment
  Guidelines and Essential Drugs List For South Africa
  Hospital Level Paediatrics, current 2006 edition
  Within 314 children’s medicines, only 1% is out of reach
  (3 medicines)
• India
   In 2011,released the first editon of List of Essential
  Medicines for Children of India,which has not been
  updated
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  The post-2015 sustainable development agenda
 • Ensure healthy life,knowledge, and include both
   women and children in it
    -Eliminate preventable mortality and malnutrition
     problems of maternals,neonatals and children
   -Ensure the supply of essential medicines

 The children’s access to medicines remians a major challenge

Source: UN.The road to dignity by 2030: ending poverty, transforming all lives and protecting the planet.2014
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Recommendations
 Strengthen and expand the after effect of the Social Forum:
  Continuous attention and further follow-up to vulnerables’ health;
  Call for national actions among member states to arouse awarenesses
 Build international coorperation platform for rational use of medicines
  in vulnerables, focus on developing countries, pay attention to the
  unredeemed key indicators of the MDGs and key requirements of post-
  MDG based on the global perspective, produce evidences together, learn
  and share experiences, including:
• Publicize and promote successful national medicine policies;
• Provide resources and assistances to countries which need technical
  support: the development, production, supply of children’s medicine
  and reevaluation on their rational use
• Produce, compose and convert evidence on children’s access to
  medicines
 Develop essential medicine list for children separately: to raise
  attention to medication in children
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 Focus access to medicines strategy on developing countries including BRICS

                                                                                      EML
                                                                                    Including Medicines
                                                                                         for Children
 Developing countries/regions
 Country/Region%:65%
                                                                   EMLc
 Population%:82%

 BIRCS
 Country/Region%:2.3%                                       EMLc
 Population:42%
 Source:1 UN. Developing regions:UN:http://unstats.un.org/unsd/methods/m49/m49regin.htm#ftnb.2.
 Population Reference Bureau.2014 World Population Data Sheet.
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  Poor health means poor policy.
   —— 2014,Global Symposium on Health Systems Research

  Good policy promotes good health!
   ——2015,Social Forum, United Nations

  “Every year millions of children die from preventable
   diseases. It’s not simply a cold statistic, they were flesh and
   blood human being with names.”
  ——2010, Secretary-general of United Nations Ban Ki-moon

Source:United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. Global Strategy for Women's and Children's Health.
Available at: http://www.un.org/zh/ mdg/summit2010/ pdf/Global%20StategyCH.pdf.
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Acknowledgment
 Prof. Youping Li of Chinese Evidence-Based Medicine Center
 Country leaders of BRICS Medicines Alliance
 Staffs of OHCHR
 Research team and colleagues from WCSUH-SCU
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HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR!
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Welcome to Chengdu, China

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     Thanks for your attention

                          感谢聆听
Lingli Zhang, M.D.
Professor and Director of Pharmacy
West China Second University Hospital, Sichuan University
No.20,Third Section, Renmin Nan Lu, Chengdu, Sichuan, 610041, P.R.China
Fax:+86 28 85501012
E-mail: zhanglingli@scu.edu.cn
         zhlingli@sina.com
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