evidence: WHO has a long-standing commitment to work with countries to ensure essential medicines are more affordable to individual people and to the health system. The WHO Essential Medicines List, updated every two years, has been a global reference for medicines access since 1978, and the Organization’s Prequalification programme has played a critical role in expanding access to quality-assured priority medicines, particularly in the area of HIV/AIDS. In the coming years, WHO will continue to work with countries to develop sound pharmaceutical pricing policies, including by running training workshops with country stakeholders and enabling discussion and information sharing through the Fair Pricing Forum (https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/335692/9789240011878-eng.pdf).