Acknowledgments
The 2015 edition of the MSH International Medical Products Price Guide was produced in collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO).
We thank the following organizations for their funding:
- The UK Department for International Development (DFID) and the Medicines Transparency Alliance (MeTA) for funding the publication of the 2007 and 2008 editions.
- The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for funding the publication of the 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, and 2006 editions.
- The Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (NORAD) for their support of the 1999 edition.
- The World Bank for their funding of the 1998 edition.
- International Network for Rational Use of Drugs (INRUD), with funds from the Danish International Development Agency, for their support of the 1996 edition.
Special thanks to the staff of the following organizations for their contributions of tender data:
- Barbados Drug Service
- Ministerio de Salud y Deportes del Bolivia (“Ministry of Health and Sports, Bolivia”)
- Botswana Public Procurement and Asset Disposal Board
- Bureau des Formations Médicales Agrées du Rwanda (BUFMAR) (“Office of Church-affiliated Health Facilities in Rwanda”)
- Centrale d’achat des Médicaments Essentiels, Consommables et Equipements Médicaux du Rwanda (CAMERWA) (“Central Purchasing of Essential Drugs, Medical Consumables and Equipment in Rwanda”)
- La Gerencia de División Médica, la Gerencia de Operaciones y el Departamento de Farmacoterapia de la C.C.S.S. (“Costa Rica Social Security”)
- Centrale de Distribution des Médicaments Essentiels de Tshikapa (CEDIMET), Democratic Republic of the Congo (“Essential Medicines Distribution Store of Tshikapa”)
- Clinton Health Access Initiative
- Government of the National Capital Territory of Delhi, India (Delhi Society for Promotion of Rational Use of Drugs)
- Democratic Republic of Congo Integrated Health Project (IHP)
- República Dominicana Central de Apoyo Logístico Programa de Medicamentos Esenciales (PROMESE/CAL) (“Dominican Republic Essential Medicine Program Central Logistics Support”)
- República de El Salvador, C.A., Ministerio de Salud Publica y Asistencia Social (“El Salvador Ministry of Public Health and Social Assistance”)
- Pharmaceutical Administration and Supply Service (PASS), Ethiopia
- Pharmaceuticals Supply and Logistics Provisional Department, Ethiopia
- La Féderation des Centrales d’Approvisionnement en Médicaments Essentiels (FEDECAME), Democratic Republic of Congo (“Federation of Essential Drug Procurement Agencies”)
- Ghana MOH Procurement Unit
- Dirección Normativa de Contrataciones y Adquisiciones del Estado, Guatemala (“State Regulatory Authority for Contracting and Acquisitions”)
- República de Honduras Secretaría de Estado en el Despacho de Salud(“Republic of Honduras, Secretary of State for Health”)
- Lesotho National Drug Service Organization (NDSO)
- Malawi Central Medical Stores
- Medical Stores Department (MSD), Tanzania
- Mission for Essential Medical Supplies (MEMS), Tanzania
- Central Medical Stores, Ministry of Health and Social Services, Namibia
- Unidad de Adquisiciones del Ministerio de Salud de Nicaragua (“Ministry of Health Procurement Unit”)
- Organization of Eastern Caribbean States Pharmaceutical Procurement Service
- Ministerio de Salud del Perú (“Ministry of Health, Peru”)
- Pharmacie Nationale d’Approvisionnement du Sénégal (“Senegal National Pharmacy”)
- El Sistema de Integración Centroamericana (SICA) (“System of Central American Integration”)
- South Africa Department of Health
- Khartoum State Ministry of Health (Sudan)
- Sudan National Health Insurance Fund
- Sudan National Medical Supplies Fund
- Tamil Nadu Medical Services Corporation, India
- Uganda National Medical Store (NMS)
- Drug Fund for Medical Supplies, Ministry of Public Health and Population, Yemen