Health policy and systems research in access to medicines: a prioritized agenda for low- and middle-income countries

Table 1 Country-/regional-level approaches to priority setting

Region	Country	No. informants	Method used to define priority policy issues
Latin America	Dominican Republic	12	Ranking during face-to-face interviews or web-based surveys
	Suriname	12
	El Salvador	12
	Colombia	12
Africa	Cameroon	102	Consensus meeting validating analysis of KII
	Congo	110
	Gabon	80
	Chad	110
	Rwanda	28
	Ghana	16
South East Asia	India	26	Qualitative analysis of KIIs
Western Pacific	Cambodia	NA*	NA*
	Lao PDR	18	Ranking during face-to-face interviews
	Vietnam	21	Ranking during face-to-face interviews
Eastern Mediterranean	Iran	20	Ranking meeting
	Pakistan	21	Consensus meeting validating analysis of KII
	Lebanon	29	Ranking meeting

*The research team in Cambodia did not obtain authorization to conduct key informant interviews. Cambodia results are limited to desk review of published and grey literature.

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