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Misión Salud

Bogotá, Colombia
Joined March 2019

Misión Salud is a Colombian Civil Society Organization dedicated to advocate for human right to health and people’s right to access to essential medicines at the national, regional and global level.

Presence in: Colombia
Focus: Health

Misión Salud has worked over the last 21 years promoting and defending the right to health in low and middle income countries, with emphasis on Colombia and Latin America, through the development of initiatives aimed at ensuring universal and equitable access to health technologies, especially generic medicines (of chemical and biological synthesis) necessary for health and life.

We have dedicated ourselves to provide governments with arguments regarding the right to health and to access to medicines in the definition of policies that have the potential to affect these rights in a negative way, with the objective that such decisions that favor these fundamental human rights or, at least, do not generate their regression.

We develop legal empowerment by:

  • Building a communication strategy that allows us to translate for everyone the complexity of the problem of access to medicines through the media (traditional media and blogs, social networks, etc.), making visible the steps we take and the way we do it.
  • Monitoring violations of human right to health through the Committee of Oversight and Cooperation in Health of which we are founders and members (CVCS, from its initials in Spanish).
  • Initiating and making follow-up of administrative processes aimed at increasing access of people to essential medicines.
  • Advocating to authorities at the local level and coordinating such advocacy with similar initiatives in other countries through the Alliance LAC – Global for Access to Medicines of which we are founders and members.
  • Researching to improve our advocacy and communication performances in order to increase the impact of our actions.

Given the evidence that the stimulus to competition is the most effective instrument to lower the prices of medicines and improve levels of access, Misión Salud supports and protects national production and the supply of competing medicines (both chemical and biological synthesis) of quality and with affordable prices.