PHM-Exch> Why and How to Make an International Crime of Medicine Counterfeiting

[Claudio Schuftan]

From: Surendernikhil Gupta <drsurendernikhil at yahoo.com>

http://jicj.oxfordjournals.org/content/9/2/325.full?etoc

Plainly, knowingly making fake medicines that do not help people, or that
harm and kill them, ought to be considered a more serious transnational
crime than it is. Other evil acts that deliberately endanger life on a
transnational, widespread and systematic basis АФ for example, terrorism or
hijacking АФ receive a far stronger legal treatment today. So too does the
counterfeiting of currency, which though an age-old scourge, became an
international crime in 1929. On that occasion, the international legal
community declared that those who faked money should, АШwithout ever being
allowed impunityАЩ,6 be placed under universal jurisdiction and made liable
to prosecution in any country, not just the country where the counterfeiting
took place. Almost a century after this development, humanity and the
defense of public health requires doing likewise for the trade in
counterfeit medicines.

Dr. Surender N. Gupta,
Faculty, Regional Health and Family Welfare Training Centre,
CHHEB, Kangra-Himachal Pradesh, India.
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