Replenish Revenue by Low-Cost Medicines, an Institution-Specific Action to Improve Access to High-Cost Medicines Used for Chronic Illness in Ethiopia: Narrative Review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Over one-quarter of the global population has no access to essential medicines. Improving access to medicines for chronic illness requires multi-level interventions. Nearly half of the people who need insulin cannot afford it.

Aim

To describe institution-specific interventions that can be applied to improve access to high-cost medicines used for chronic diseases without affecting revenue generated from pharmaceuticals.

Methods

A narrative review was conducted by using articles written in the English language from January 2000 to May 2020 and retrieved from PubMed/Medline, Embase, Cochrane Library, Scopus, Web of Science, and Google Scholar with the following systematic search query.

Results

Fifty-three studies were included. Most of the drugs used fo

SUBMITTER: Sorato MM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12040719 | biostudies-literature | 2025 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature