Table 1. Priority Medicines for Mothers and Children.

Condition	Chemical Entity	Concentration and dosage form
Post-partum haemorrhage	Oxytocin	Injection 10 IU or 10 IU/ml
	Misoprostol	Tablet
	Sodium chloride	Injection
	Sodium lactate (Ringer's lactate) (Hartman's)	Injection
Severe pre-eclampsia and eclampsia	Magnesium sulfate	Injection 500 mg/ml or 50%
	Calcium gluconate	Injection 100 mg/ml or 10%
Maternal sepsis	Ampicillin	Injection
	Gentamicin	Injection
	Metronidazole	Injection 500 mg (or 5 mg/ml)
Sexually transmitted diseases	Azithromycin	At least one of the forms
	Cefixime	Capsule 400 mg (or tablet)
	Benzathine benzylpenicillin	Powder for injection
Pre-term birth	Betamethasone or dexamethasone	Injection
	Nifedipine	Capsules 10 mg (or tablet)
Pneumonia	Amoxicillin	Tablet (or capsule)
	Ceftriaxone	Powder for injection
	Oxygen	Medicinal gas
	Procaine benzylpenicillin	Injection
Diarrhoea	ORS (oral rehydration salts)	Sachet
	Zinc	Tablet 20 mg
Malaria	Artemisinin combination therapy: artemether+lumefantrine or artesunate+amodiaquine or dihydroartemisinin+piperaquine	Dispersible tablet or flexible oral solid dosage form
	Artesunate	Rectal
	Artesunate	Injection
Vitamin A deficiency	Vitamin A (Retinol)	Capsule
Neonatal sepsis	Ceftriaxone	Powder for injection
	Gentamicin	Injection
	Procaine benzylpenicillin	Injection
Palliative care	Morphine	At least one of the forms (granules, injection, oral liquid, variable flexible oral solid dosage form)
	Paracetamol	Variable flexible oral dosage form (liquid, suppository, tablet)