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GUIDELINES FOR DRUG DONATIONS
These Guidelines for drug donations have been developed by the World Health
Organization (WHO) in cooperation with the major international agencies active in
humanitarian relief.
The first version was issued in May 1996 and represented the consensus of WHO,
Churches’ Action for Health of the World Council of Churches, the International
Committee of the Red Cross, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red
Crescent Societies, Médecins Sans Frontières, the Office of the United Nations High
Commissioner for Refugees, OXFAM and the United Nations Children’s Fund. In
1999 the number of co-sponsors expanded to include Caritas Internationalis, the
International Pharmaceutical Federation, Pharmaciens Sans Frontières, UNAIDS, the
United Nations Development Programme, the United Nations Population Fund and
the World Bank.
The Guidelines aim to improve the quality of drug donations, not to hinder them.
They are not an international regulation, but are intended to serve as a basis for
national or institutional guidelines, to be reviewed, adapted and implemented by
governments and organizations dealing with drug donations.
