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Fair Pricing Forum 2024 [1]

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Date: 2024-02-06

The World Health Organization (WHO) is organizing the 2024 Fair Pricing Forum. This event will take place virtually, from 10:00 to 14:30 (UTC) on 6 to 8 February 2024.

This meeting is the fourth forum that focuses on improving access to medicines and health products through fair pricing, following the inaugural forum held in the Netherlands in 2017 (10–11 May), the second forum in South Africa in 2019 (11-13 April), and third forum co-hosted virtually by Argentina in 2021 (13-15 and 20-22 April). In 2019, the World Health Assembly adopted Resolution WHA 72.8 on Improving the transparency of markets for medicines, vaccines, and other health products. The resolution requests the Director-General, inter alia, “To continue its efforts to biennially convene the Fair Pricing Forum with Member States and all relevant stakeholders to discuss the affordability and transparency of prices and costs relating to health products.”

In line with this resolution, the Forum will bring together representatives from Member States and relevant stakeholders from civil society, academia, the private health sector and UN agencies to achieve the following three objectives:

Share experiences between participants about existing and planned efforts to enhance market transparency across the pharmaceutical value chain, with reference to WHA72.8, 2019. Assess current and emerging health system challenges to ensure optimal access to affordable health products. Discuss with all stakeholders the current and future potential policies and strategies for improving the affordability of essential medicines and essential health products, in light of current trends and initiatives, as well as with reference to the themes that emerged from the last Forum held virtually in 2021.

Participation in the Fair Pricing Forum is by invitation only. If your organization has already nominated you for participation, you will receive a formal registration link.



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