Access to Medicine Index—what about sustainability?

A summary of the article – A pharmaceutical company representative described the Access to Medicine Index 2016 as “a force for good, and not yet another stick with which to beat industry”.1 The Access to Medicine Index 2016,1which will be presented at a public meeting later this month at the time of the WHO Executive Board meeting in Geneva, ranks the top 20 research-based pharmaceutical companies on their efforts to improve access to medicine in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs). And those companies with high ranking tout their success to their stockholders and the media.