In order to improve women’s health worldwide 1) quantify the unmet need for maternal health medicines so manufacturers can adequately scale up to meet that need and cost estimates to achieve universal coverage can be calculated and 2) strengthen management information systems to ensure medicine availability and avoid stock outs but not too far in advance to risk expiration – United Nations Commission on Commodities for Women and Children’s health, 2012, “Key data and findings Medicines for Maternal Health”