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Why Europe is running out of medicines, again
In the past 20 years, there has been a 20-fold increase in recorded drug shortages in Europe. Governments have recently used the war in Ukraine and the energy crisis to cover up the real – far more structural – reasons behind them.
As there isn't yet a single database recording drug shortages at the European level, MIIR and seven other EDJNet partners have created one, recording 22,107 entries from 9 countries over a 5 year period.
- Between 2018 and 2023, Italy registered the most shortages for human medicines (10,843), quite far from the 2nd, Czechia (2,699), and the 3rd, Germany (2,355). Greece (389) was the country with the fewest shortages.
- The indicator that best describes the situation in each country, however, is the duration of a shortage: Greece has the longest median duration of shortages (130 days), followed by Germany (120 days) and Belgium (103 days).
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Fellowship The Europe-Ukraine Desk
N-ost launched “The Europe-Ukraine Desk”, a new project which aims to foster exchange and cross-border collaboration between journalists from Ukraine and Bulgaria, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, and Spain. The project consists of fellowship programmes, a grant programme for the development of joint publications, and a weekly newsletter summarising current discussions about Ukraine.
👉 Deadline: 9 April 2023. More information here.
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