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Position Paper – Transparency Directive Revision

Affordable Medicines Europe strongly support an ambitious revision of the Transparency Directive. It is a key objective for our sector to bring more affordable medicines to healthcare sys-tems and patients across the EU. The current lack of transparency of medicines prices is one of the key obstacles to reach this objective. We therefore called for real transparency in prices of medicines.

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Position Paper – Diversification of the Supply Chain

Over the past years shortages of medicine have been on the rise, not only in the EU but world-wide. In this paper, we identify the vulnerability of single source supply chains and discuss how we can diversify production so as to decrease dependence on individual factories. Though the COVID-19 Pandemic exposed vulnerabilities in the supply chain and caused problems – keeping the supply chain international and globalized is still the safest approach to guarantee supply safety.

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Position Paper – Medicines Shortages

Medicine shortages are an increasing problem and a growing concern of patients and healthcare providers. It is a problem for which we must find practical solutions both short- and long-term. To this purpose, Affordable Medicines Europe in this paper presents 20 concrete actions that can be taken by policymakers.

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