Our vision is a world where every person, everywhere benefits from timely access to safe, effective, and quality-assured medicines and other health products, including innovative products and emerging technologies, to attain the highest possible level of health and well-being. 

Our mission is to facilitate access to safe, effective and quality-assured medicines and health products to achieve universal health coverage goals through the provision of evidence-based normative guidance, standards, specifications, policy and technical assistance to Member States. The scope of our work covers assistive technology; biologicals and biological products (including cell and gene therapies); blood products; internationally-controlled medicines and substances; medical devices, including in vitro diagnostics; medicines; and organs, tissues and cell transplantation.

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