• J Public Health Policy · Nov 2015

    Viewpoint: Counterfeit medicines and substandard medicines: Different problems requiring different solutions.

    • Ellen 't Hoen and Fernando Pascual.
    • Medicines Law and Policy, Paris 75011, France.
    • J Public Health Policy. 2015 Nov 1; 36 (4): 384-9.

    AbstractNew interest in the 'pandemic' of falsified medicines has resulted in efforts to put in place a treaty on 'medicines crime'. If the goal is to protect the interests of people and public health, an international agreement to ensure that all proven effective and necessary medicines are affordable, available, and of assured quality will do far more to combat falsified and substandard medicines than an agreement that deals primarily with the criminal aspects of problematic medicines production and distribution.

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