Therefore, they can be barriers to accessing essential social services and secure livelihoods.
Such options relevant to accessing essential medicines include: exclusions to patentability; exceptions to patent rights; parallel importing; compulsory licensing and promotion of generic drugs.
"The fact is children are last in line, behind grown-ups, when it comes to accessing essential services, both in the aftermath of disaster, and afterwards," says UNICEF Child Protection Officer Nabia Farrah.
To investigate how to address constraints to accessing essential and quality maternal health services, a demand and supply side intervention was designed and piloted in two districts in Eastern Uganda in 2010 2011.
Moreover, financial support may be important to eliminate out of pocket payments that are acting as barriers in some settings to accessing essential medical care such as magnesium sulphate for eclampsia and severe pre-eclampsia.
Including irregular migrants in UHC, whether through tax-based, premium-based or other potential forms of financing, will require a deliberate decision to separate the issue of irregular migrant status from people's entitlement to accessing essential healthcare.
We suggest that by taking the time to ensure that homeless individuals have direct input into the development of services, their unmet needs will be addressed and barriers to accessing essential services will be more effectively reduced.
In this study, however, we explore provider perspectives, within the same framework commonly utilised to understand patient perspectives, to ascertain their perceptions of these barriers to accessing essential medicines, i.e. those medicines that satisfy the priority health care needs of the population [ 15].
While recent legislative reform in Ukraine and Kyrgyzstan sought to protect these groups, in practice our findings suggest that criminalisation of drug use and police harassment remained substantial barriers to accessing essential HIV/AIDS services in 2007 and 2008, especially harm deduction services delivered by NGOs to IDU clients.
They can also be barriers to accessing secure livelihoods and essential services like health and education.
