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WHO Working Group Gives Guidelines To Fight Bad Medicines; IMPACT In Exile

By Intellectual Property Watch

After three days of intense negotiations on the role of the World Health Organization in the fight against low standard or falsified medicines, delegates provided recommendations for the UN agency. A subject of dissent was the relationship between the WHO and its taskforce against counterfeit medicines, with some countries calling for a suspension of the taskforce?s work, though in the end no consensus was found.

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Full post as published by Intellectual Property Watch on March 03, 2011 (boomark / email).