PHM-Exch> Poor quality sub-standard medicines Oxfam

[Claudio Schuftan]

143 Oxfam Briefing Paper 2 February 2011

*Eye on the Ball *Medicine regulation – not IP enforcement – can best
deliver quality medicines www.oxfam.org

 An AIDS patient holding drugs provided through the Thai government
treatment programme.

©Tom Greenwood/Oxfam.

*Poor-quality, or ‘substandard’, medicines threaten patients and public
health in developing countries. Prioritization of medicines regulation by
developing-country governments, with the technical and financial support of
rich countries, is badly needed. Under the guise of helping to address
dangerous and ineffective medicines, rich countries are pushing for new
intellectual-property rules and reliance on police – rather than health
regulatory – action. This approach will not ensure that medicines
consistently meet quality standards. Worse, new intellectual property rules
can undermine access to affordable generic medicines and damage public
health. Developing countries must improve medicines regulation – not expand
intellectual-property enforcement – in order to ensure medicine quality.*

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