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. 2021 May 15:11:03062.
doi: 10.7189/jogh.11.03062.

Seeking truer measures of success: Moving toward more rigorous evaluations of industry-led access to medicines programs

Cherie Lynn Ramirez  1   2   3 , Ashveena Gajeelee  1   3 , Brianna Desharnais  2 , Jenna Sherman  1   4 , Dexter Waters  1   5
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Seeking truer measures of success: Moving toward more rigorous evaluations of industry-led access to medicines programs

Cherie Lynn Ramirez et al. J Glob Health. .
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Competing interests: The authors completed the ICMJE Unified Competing Interest form (available upon request from the corresponding author) and declare no conflicts of interest.

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A small representative set of indicators are presented that were changed between the 2018 and 2021 Access to Medicines Index reports. A comprehensive listing of indicators and the changes between those used in 2018 and 2021 are provided in Figure S1 in the Online Supplementary Document.
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