The campaign aims to speed up improvements to safe, child-specific medicines and raise awareness of their availability. WHO says to achieve these aims more research, child-specific medicines and improved access to these treatments is needed.
Dr Hans Hogerzeil, director of medicines policy and standards at WHO, said: "A lot remains to be done. There are priority medicines that have not been adapted for children or are not available when needed."
WHO is building an internet portal to clinical trials carried out in children. The website containing the information will launch early next year.
At the campaign's launch last week, the organisation published the first international list of safe medicines for children. The list contains 206 medicines deemed safe for use by young people.
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