This toolkit from the World Health Professions Alliance (WHPA) — an alliance of organisations representing more than 25 million healthcare professionals worldwide — aims to educate staff and patients about counterfeit medicines. It was commissioned by the WHO's International Medical Products Anti-Counterfeiting Task Force (IMPACT). The toolkit includes a form that healthcare workers can use to report on suspected counterfeit medicines and a visual inspection checklist that can be used to judge whether or not a medicine might be fake. It also offers useful advice on how health professionals can answer media questions, how to communicate concerns to patients and how to educate the public on the dangers of counterfeit drugs.

This report, endorsed by the African Ministerial Conference on Science and Technology, analyses the obstacles to providing better access to, and ensuring local production of, medicines in low- and middle-income African countries.

It presents a map of innovation and access activities across the continent and offers a planning tool — the Pharmaceutical Innovation Framework and Grid — to help countries do self-assessments, develop strategies, build capacity and partnerships and improve access to essential medicines.

This set of documents, written and published by the Food and Agriculture Organization's (FAO) Right to Food Unit, is intended as a practical guide to implementing the human right to adequate food.

This six-part guide includes background information on legislating for the right to food, as well as detailed outlines of methods to monitor the human right to adequate food.

It also includes a guide to conducting a right to food assessment, and establishing a budget for the right to food.

A common theme throughout the documents is the need to raise public awareness about these issues.

The toolbox offers policymakers background and contextual information they may not have — such as different legal options for governing the right to food — and provides practical advice on increasing access to food.