The International Dispensary Association Foundation (IDA Foundation) was created in 1972 in Amsterdam. Its goal is to improve access to important medications and health care equipment in the developing world.[1] It works to achieve this by directly selling these items to organizations working in those areas of the world.[1] It is a not for profit organisation.[2] As of 2019 they were selling more than 3,000 products in more than 130 countries.[1] What they distribute is based in part on the WHO Model List of Essential Medicines.[1]
Oily chloramphenicol (or chloramphenicol oil suspension) is a long-acting preparation of chloramphenicol first introduced by Roussel Uclaf in 1954; marketed as Tifomycine, it was originally used as a treatment for typhoid. Roussel stopped production of oily chloramphenicol in 1995; the IDA Foundation has manufactured it since 1998, first in Malta and then in India from December 2004.[3]