Bamako Initiative

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The Bamako Initiative was a formal statement adopted by African health ministers in 1987 in Bamako, Mali, to implement strategies designed to increase the availability of essential drugs and other healthcare services for Sub-Saharan Africans.

Measures

The Bamako Initiative proposed decentralising health decision making to local levels and establishing realistic national drug policies to enhance the provision of essential drugs for Sub-Saharan Africans.

See also

• Benin
• Guinea
• Nigeria

Notes

External links

• UNICEF - The Bamako Initiative
• Implementation of the Bamako Initiative: strategies in Benin and Guinea
• Manageable Bamako Initiative schemes
• Providing essential drugs - The Bamako Initiative
• Effect of the Bamako-Initiative drug revolving fund on availability and rational use of essential drugs in primary health care facilities in south-east Nigeria
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