On this page, you can find Affordable Medicines Europe’s position papers on current topics in the pharmaceuticals policy.
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 […]
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.
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 […]
