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The World Health Organization on Tuesday released a list of medications it thinks should be available to everyone on the planet.

The so-called essential medicines list is a compendium of drugs released every two years. The first iteration of the list was published 40 years ago, in 1977. There is also a separate essential medicines for children list.

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