Background  (See Document -In Spanish PDF)

Mission

To harmonize the criteria and their application in the classification of drugs to drugs over the counter (from now on OTC) in the countries of the Americas.

Members of the Working Group on Medicines Classification

Main Members

• MERCOSUR: Tatiana Lowande, Brazil.
• SICA: Beatriz de la Cruz Pérez, Cuba.
• CARICOM: Pamela Payne-Wilson, Barbados.
• ALIFAR: María Angélica Sánchez, Chile.
• FIFARMA: Hector Bolanos, Mexico.

Alternate Members

• MERCOSUR: Rosa Maria Papale, Argentina.
• SICA: Luis Palma, Panama.
• CARICOM: Mary Louis, Trinidad and Tobago.
• FIFARMA: Marisa Carcione: Argentina.

Secretariat (PAHO / WHO)

• Juanita Rodriguez, Washington, DC.

Directory (PDF - 324Kb) 

Minutes:

• Second Meeting, Antigua, Guatemala May 2004  (PDF - 312 Kb)
• First Meeting. Mexico, May, 2003 (PDF - 484Kb)

Documents:  

• Concept and Criteria to Classification OTC Drugs (pdf)  (Document-approved)
• Common Information Requirement for OTC Drugs (pdf)
• Criteria to Classification Drugs in the Americas,  
• Diagnostic Study (only Spanish) (PDF 367Kb)

Recommendations

 Recommendations (Conclusions IV Conference)

 Recommendations  (Conclusions V Conference)