The Access to Medicine Foundation is an independent non-profit organisation based in the Netherlands. Our mission is to stimulate and guide pharmaceutical companies to do more for the people living in low- and middle-income countries without access to medicine.

We talk to experts about the actions pharmaceutical companies can and should be taking and then analyse what they are actually doing. In practice, that means analysing pharma companies’ actions and policies regarding access to medicine using a rigorous scoring and evaluation process. We benchmark companies against each other, and identify best practices and progress gaps. We make all of our results public and use our findings in our own outreach work to expand good practice across the industry.

The Access to Medicine Index ranks 20 of the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies based on seven areas of behaviour linked to access: strategy, governance, R&D, pricing, licensing, capacity building and donations. By publicly recognising the best performers, the Index spurs companies to compete to be the best.