About Us

The Access to Medicine Foundation is an international not for profit organization dedicated to improving access to medicine to societies in need. Based in Haarlem, the Netherlands, the Foundation publishes the Access to Medicine Index, the first Index of its kind to rank pharmaceutical companies with respect to their efforts to enhance global access to medicine. 

Mission Statement 

The Access to Medicine Foundation aims to advance access to medicine in developing countries by encouraging the pharmaceutical industry to accept a greater role towards improving access to medicine in less developed countries.

Why an Index?

The goal of the Access of Medicine Index is to supply pharmaceutical companies, investors, governments, academics, nongovernmental organizations and the general public with independent, impartial and reliable information on individual pharmaceutical companies’ efforts to improve global access to medicine. We strive to provide companies with a transparent means by which pharmaceutical companies assess, monitor and improve their own performance and their public and investment profiles while building a platform on which all stakeholders can share best practices in the area of global access to medicine.

(The Access to Medicine Foundation has charity status (ANBI status) under Dutch Tax law. It is registered at the Amsterdam Chamber of Commerce under registration number 34185938.)