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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'">The new issue of Southern Med Review (which is a special issue on Access to Medicine, Pricing and Generics) has been released and can be accessed from the following website: </span><span lang="EN-NZ" style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'"></span>
<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'"><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.fmhs.auckland.ac.nz/sop/smr/_docs/SMR_Vol2_Issue2.pdf" target="_blank"><span style="COLOR: purple">http://www.fmhs.auckland.ac.nz/sop/smr/_docs/SMR_Vol2_Issue2.pdf</span></a></span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'"> </span><span lang="EN-NZ" style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'"></span>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'">Table of Contents</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'"> </span><span lang="EN-NZ" style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'"></span>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'">Access to Medicines: Complex Entities and Behaviours Seem Unavoidable</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'"> </span><span lang="EN-NZ" style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'"></span>
<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'">Albert I. Wertheimer, PhD, MBA, Temple University </span><span lang="EN-NZ" style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'"></span>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'">Medicine Prices, Availability, and Affordability in Vietnam</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'"> </span><span lang="EN-NZ" style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'"></span>
<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'">Anh Tuan Nguyen, Rosemary Knight, Andrea Mant, Quang Minh Cao, Martin Auton. </span><span lang="EN-NZ" style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'"></span>
<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'">University of New South Wales, Australia, Ministry of Health of Vietnam, Hanoi, Vietnam & Health Action International, Amsterdam, the Netherlands<b> </b></span><span lang="EN-NZ" style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'"></span>
<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'">Medicine prices in Thailand: A result of no Medicine Pricing Policy</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'"> </span><span lang="EN-NZ" style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'"></span>
<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'"> </span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'">Cha-oncin Sooksriwong, Worasuda Yoongthong , Siriwat Suwattanapreeda , Farsai Chanjaruporn </span><span lang="EN-NZ" style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'"></span>
<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'"> Faculty of Pharmacy, Mahidol University & Thailand & Drug Control Division, Ministry of Public Health, Thailand<b> </b></span><span lang="EN-NZ" style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'"></span>
<p style="MARGIN: 12pt 0in 3pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'">Medicine pricing interventions – the South African experience</span></b><b><span lang="EN-NZ" style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'"></span></b>
<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'">Andrew Lofts Gray, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa<b> </b></span><span lang="EN-NZ" style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'"></span>
<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'"> </span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'"> </span><span lang="EN-NZ" style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'"></span>
<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'">Consumers’ perception of generic medicines in community pharmacies in Malaysia</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'"> </span><span lang="EN-NZ" style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'"></span>
<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'"> </span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'">Raynu Thomas, Agnes Vitry </span><span lang="EN-NZ" style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'"></span>
<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'">Quality Use of Medicines and Pharmacy Research Centre, Sansom Institute, University of South Australia, Australia<b> </b></span><span lang="EN-NZ" style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'"></span>
<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'"> </span><span lang="EN-NZ" style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'"></span>
<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'"> </span><b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'">Generic medicines in Australia: business dynamics and recent policy reform</span></b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'"> </span><span lang="EN-NZ" style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'"></span>
<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'">Hans Löfgren, School of International and Political Studies, Deakin University, Australia </span><span lang="EN-NZ" style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'"></span>
<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'"> </span><span lang="EN-NZ" style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'"></span>
<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'">Antiretroviral therapy in a South African public health care setting - facilitating and constraining factors</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'"> </span><span lang="EN-NZ" style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'"></span>
<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'"> </span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'">Karine W Ruud, Sunitha C Srinivas Else-Lydia Toverud </span><span lang="EN-NZ" style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'"></span>
<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'">School of Pharmacy, University of Oslo, Norway & Department of Pharmacy Administration and Practice, Rhodes University, South Africa.<b> </b></span><span lang="EN-NZ" style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'"></span>
<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'"> </span><span lang="EN-NZ" style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'"></span>
<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 6pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'">Legislation, Regulation, and Consolidation in the Retail Pharmacy Sector in Low-Income Countries</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'"> </span><span lang="EN-NZ" style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'"></span>
<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 6pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'">Richard F Lowe, Dominic Montagu </span><span lang="EN-NZ" style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'"></span>
<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 6pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'">Global Health Group, Global Health Sciences, University of California, San Francisco<b> </b></span><span lang="EN-NZ" style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'"></span>
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