The Selection and Use of Essential Medicines

This report presents the recommendations of the WHO Expert Committee responsible for updating the WHO Model List of Essential Medicines. The first part contains a review of the report of a meeting of the Expert Subcommittee on the Selection and Use of Essential Medicines held in October 2008. It also provides details of new applications for paediatric medicines and summarizes the Committee's considerations and justifications for additions and changes to the Model List including its recommendatio