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'Ending inequities in access to effective pain relief' - Lancet article

At the meeting of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs - the UN’s primary drug policy-making organ - in Vienna in March this year, an important step forward was made with the adoption of a resolution on the importance of efforts to ensure availability.

One of the barriers to universal access to effective pain relief is that governments and international agencies often focus too much on the drug control side of narcotics regulation and too little on their responsibilities to ensure access to opioid analgesics for medical purposes.

In this comment just published in the Lancet, Jonathan Liberman, Megan O’Brien, Wayne Hall and David Hill outline the contents of the resolution, and the challenge for the global health community to ensure that the resolution is implemented to end the pain and suffering of millions of people around the world.

UICC is committed to taking up this challenge, working with our civil society partners, through our Global Access to Pain Relief Initiative (GAPRI). Next year’s meeting of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs in Vienna in March 2011 will be a significant focus of our advocacy. If you would like to get involved in our advocacy towards this meeting, please contact UICC.

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