Bamako Initiative
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The Bamako Initiative was a formal statement adopted by African health ministers in 1987 in Bamako, Mali, to implement strategies designed to increase the availability of essential drugs and other healthcare services for Sub-Saharan Africans.[1]
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The Bamako Initiative proposed decentralising health decision making to local levels and establishing realistic national drug policies to enhance the provision of essential drugs for Sub-Saharan Africans.[2]
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- ^ Bamako Initiative. Retrieved on 2006-12-28.
- ^ Bamako Initiative revitalizes primary health care in Benin. Retrieved on 2006-12-28.
[edit] External links
- UNICEF - The Bamako Initiative
- Implementation of the Bamako Initiative: strategies in Benin and Guinea
- Manageable Bamako Initiative schemes
- Providing essential drugs - The Bamako Initiative
- Effect of the Bamako-Initiative drug revolving fund on availability and rational use of essential drugs in primary health care facilities in south-east Nigeria