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Health Technologies for the Developing World: Promoting Self-reliance through Improving Local Procurement and Manufacturing Capabilities

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 March 2009

Michael J. Free ,
Jonathan A. Green  and
Margaret M. Morrow
Michael J. Free
Affiliation:
Program for Appropriate Technology in Health, Seattle
Jonathan A. Green
Affiliation:
Program for Appropriate Technology in Health, Seattle
Margaret M. Morrow
Affiliation:
Program for Appropriate Technology in Health, Seattle
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Abstract

To reduce their dependency on donors or the international currency costs of essential health care products, developing countries are building or improving capability for local manufacturing or competitive international procurement. Through long-term strategic planning, public/private partnerships, collaboration with firms in industrialized nations, and farsighted donor policies, the capacity for alternative supply can be increased in stages from importation through local processing and packaging to full production and multiproduct enterprises.

Type
Special Section: Industry and the Generation of Technology, Part II
Information
International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care , Volume 9 , Issue 3 , Summer 1993 , pp. 380 - 396
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1993

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