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Wednesday, July 9th, 2008A few years back, I engaged someone I know in the research-based pharmaceutical industry in a discussion of the raging debate over whether developing countries would impose compulsory licensing of key patented (by multinational companies) drugs for the treatment of life-threatening conditions such as HIV/AIDS and cancer, followed by either local production or importing generics […]
Fighting the Growing Menace of Counterfeit Drugs
Wednesday, March 14th, 2007Have you ever bought medicine at a pharmacy in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC)? I'm not talking about the big, sophisticated ones you might find in Buenos Aires or Rio de Janeiro. I'm speaking of those small ones in places like Santo Domingo or small towns in the Central American countryside, which are often […]