Pharmacology
Fake Scare About Fake Drugs
IPN Opinion article
EU pharmaceutical seizures are a good thing for India and for patients
Combating fake medicines: health, IP and global politics
Issues such as intellectual property rights have prevented action in tackling the global menace of counterfeit and substandard medicines
Calls for Africa to make own Aids drugs dangerous
IPN Opinion article
Local production of drugs is a long-standing slogan in the aid industry and in many individual countries and has now been taken up by the African Union. But its superficial attraction hides vested interests, expensive subsidies and dangers to quality.
Corruption fuels spread of fake drugs business
IPN Opinion article
A barrage of email spam highlights the dangers from bad drugs as everyone worries about swine flu but the plague of counterfeits is constant threat everywhere and particularly in poor countries. Taxes and corruption make business difficult or impossible for legitimate medicines but open the field to counterfeit dealers who can pay the bribes and make huge profits on their cheap imitations.
