Health policy and systems research in access to medicines: a prioritized agenda for low- and middle-income countries

This intends to identify priority policy issues in access to medicines (ATM) relevant for low- and middle-income countries, to identify research questions that would help address these policy issues, and to prioritize these research questions in a health policy and systems research (HPSR) agenda.

The study involved:
country- and regional-level priority-setting exercises performed in 17 countries across five regions, with a desk review of relevant grey and published literature combined with mapping and interviews of national and regional stakeholders;
interviews with global-level stakeholders;
a scoping of published literature; and
a consensus building exercise with global stakeholders which resulted in the formulation and ranking of HPSR questions in the field of ATM.