<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Surendernikhil Gupta</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:drsurendernikhil@yahoo.com">drsurendernikhil@yahoo.com</a>></span><br><br><a href="http://jicj.oxfordjournals.org/content/9/2/325.full?etoc" target="_blank">http://jicj.oxfordjournals.org/content/9/2/325.full?etoc</a><br>
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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 áæ for example, terrorism or hijacking áæ 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, áûwithout ever being allowed impunityáý,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.<br>
<br>Dr. Surender N. Gupta,<br>Faculty, Regional Health and Family Welfare Training Centre,<br>
CHHEB, Kangra-Himachal Pradesh, India.<br></div>