- Bamako Initiative
The Bamako Initiative was a formal statement adopted by
African health ministers in 1987 inBamako ,Mali , to implement strategies designed to increase the availability of essential drugs and other healthcare services forSub-Saharan Africa ns. [cite web
url=http://www.eldis.org/healthsystems/userfees/background.htm
title=Bamako Initiative
publisher=
accessdate=2006-12-28 ]Measures
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. [cite web
url=http://www.who.int/inf-new/child6.htm
title=Bamako Initiative revitalizes primary health care in Benin
publisher=
accessdate=2006-12-28 ]ee also
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Benin
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*Nigeria Notes
External links
* [http://www.unicef.org/media/media_11991.html UNICEF - The Bamako Initiative]
* [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=10173105&dopt=Abstract Implementation of the Bamako Initiative: strategies in Benin and Guinea]
* [http://www.medicusmundi.ch/mms/services/bulletin/bulletin200201/kap01/07kuechler.html Manageable Bamako Initiative schemes]
* [http://tilz.tearfund.org/Publications/Footsteps+31-40/Footsteps+37/Providnig+essential+drugs.htm Providing essential drugs - The Bamako Initiative]
* [http://heapol.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/17/4/378 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]* [http://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&channel=s&hl=en&q=Bamako+Initiative&btnG=Google+Search Google Search]
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