scholarly journals Knowledge and perspectives of the public towards the prevalence and harm associated with counterfeit medicines in Lebanon

2021 ◽  
pp. 100019
Author(s):  
Manale Noun ◽  
Layla Nasr ◽  
Iftikhar Khan ◽  
Basel Arafat ◽  
Sulaf Assi
Keyword(s):  
The Public ◽  
Counterfeit Medicines

scholarly journals Combatting counterfeit drugs: Case studies of Cambodia, Vietnam and Thailand

2017 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 4-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jakkrit Kuanpoth
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Southeast Asian ◽  
Legal Issues ◽  
Counterfeit Drugs ◽  
The Public ◽  
Asian Region ◽  
Counterfeit Medicines ◽  
Legal Power

Medicines can save lives only if they are safe, efficacious, of good quality and affordable. The use of unsafe, substandard, ineffective and counterfeit drugs can be harmful to the health of the users and the public. Governments have an obligation to ensure the safety, efficacy and quality of the drugs available to the public by regulating the manufacturing and distribution of drugs and by exercising legal power to control the proliferation of unsafe counterfeit medicines. This article surveys the factual and legal issues surrounding counterfeit drugs in three countries, namely Cambodia, Vietnam and Thailand, in order to determine the magnitude and characteristics of the drug counterfeiting problem within the Southeast Asian region.

scholarly journals Qualification of Smuggling of Narcotic Drugs, Psychotropic Substances, their Analogues and Precursors or Counterfeit Medicines Committed in Complicity and in Conjunction with Other Crimes

2020 ◽  
pp. 286-296
Author(s):  
Oleh OMELCHUK ◽  
Serhii KRUSHYNSKYI
Keyword(s):  
Organized Crime ◽  
Transnational Crime ◽  
Criminal Organization ◽  
Criminal Code ◽  
Drug Smuggling ◽  
The Public ◽  
Psychotropic Substances ◽  
Counterfeit Medicines ◽  
Over Time ◽  
Narcotic Drugs

The forms of complicity in which the smuggling of narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances, their analogues and precursors or counterfeit medicines may be analyzed and described, namely: by a preliminary conspiracy by a group of persons, as part of an organized crime group and a criminal organization. Their main features are established, by which it is possible to distinguish between and distinguish between a particular form of complicity for further correct qualification of unlawful acts. At the same time, there are some examples of drug smuggling in complicity. Also, the examples of criminal offences stipulated by the current Criminal Code of Ukraine, which are most often committed with the smuggling of narcotic drugs, namely: committing drug smuggling with the participation of officials, obtaining illegal benefits, falsification of medicines with further illegal transportation abroad, financing of terrorist activities, as well as illegal handling of weapons in the commission of the above-mentioned crime, hooliganism. The public danger of such actions is substantiated and established, which causes the need to consider further ways to improve the current legislation in the fight against drug smuggling, which over time becomes a significant scale and negative trends. At the same time, foreign legislation providing for the use of weapons in the commission of drug smuggling is analyzed. The above material was described and a reasonable conclusion was made that the current norm, which provides for the responsibility for the smuggling of narcotic drugs, requires necessary improvements and changes to effectively combat the phenomenon of transnational crime and the correct qualification of the actions of guilty persons.

Striking a Balance between Protecting Trademarks and Public Health Interests in Combating Trade in Counterfeit Medicines: Lessons from Kenya and South Africa

2016 ◽  
Vol 60 (2) ◽  
pp. 312-338
Author(s):  
Pamela Andanda
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
South Africa ◽  
Intellectual Property ◽  
Brand Name ◽  
African Countries ◽  
Health Concerns ◽  
The Public ◽  
Counterfeit Medicines

AbstractTrade in counterfeit medicines raises serious public health concerns. However, efforts geared towards combating trade in counterfeit medicines tend to focus more on the protection of trademarks, which may not necessarily protect the public from the adverse consequences of using counterfeit medicines. This arises from differences in the meaning of “counterfeit” in the intellectual property and public health contexts. This article analyses the extent to which the anti-counterfeiting legislation and institutions in two African countries, Kenya and South Africa, are capable of combating trade in counterfeit medicines in a manner that protects both the public and brand name owners. The article examines the anti-counterfeiting legislation and institutions that ensure compliance with the standards for marketing medicines that are in place in these countries, in order to draw lessons on how they can be used to balance the protection of public health interests and trademarks.

Replications can cause distorted belief in scientific progress

2018 ◽  
Vol 41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michał Białek
Keyword(s):  
Real World ◽  
Scientific Progress ◽  
The Public ◽  
Psychological Science

AbstractIf we want psychological science to have a meaningful real-world impact, it has to be trusted by the public. Scientific progress is noisy; accordingly, replications sometimes fail even for true findings. We need to communicate the acceptability of uncertainty to the public and our peers, to prevent psychology from being perceived as having nothing to say about reality.

Hospitals: N.Y. Appellate Court Denies Move to Privatize Public Hospital

1999 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 202-203
Author(s):  
Robert Chatham
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
Public Health System ◽  
Municipal Hospital ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Benefit ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Benefit Corporation ◽  
The City

The Court of Appeals of New York held, in Council of the City of New York u. Giuliani, slip op. 02634, 1999 WL 179257 (N.Y. Mar. 30, 1999), that New York City may not privatize a public city hospital without state statutory authorization. The court found invalid a sublease of a municipal hospital operated by a public benefit corporation to a private, for-profit entity. The court reasoned that the controlling statute prescribed the operation of a municipal hospital as a government function that must be fulfilled by the public benefit corporation as long as it exists, and nothing short of legislative action could put an end to the corporation's existence.In 1969, the New York State legislature enacted the Health and Hospitals Corporation Act (HHCA), establishing the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation (HHC) as an attempt to improve the New York City public health system. Thirty years later, on a renewed perception that the public health system was once again lacking, the city administration approved a sublease of Coney Island Hospital from HHC to PHS New York, Inc. (PHS), a private, for-profit entity.

Democrazy—Dem Go Craze, O: Monitoring the 1999 Nigerian Elections

1999 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-33
Author(s):  
Darren Kew
Keyword(s):  
Transition Program ◽  
The Political ◽  
High Stakes ◽  
Political Class ◽  
Soccer Match ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Military

In many respects, the least important part of the 1999 elections were the elections themselves. From the beginning of General Abdusalam Abubakar’s transition program in mid-1998, most Nigerians who were not part of the wealthy “political class” of elites—which is to say, most Nigerians— adopted their usual politically savvy perspective of siddon look (sit and look). They waited with cautious optimism to see what sort of new arrangement the military would allow the civilian politicians to struggle over, and what in turn the civilians would offer the public. No one had any illusions that anything but high-stakes bargaining within the military and the political class would determine the structures of power in the civilian government. Elections would influence this process to the extent that the crowd influences a soccer match.

A Rural County Speech and Language Program

1977 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 250-255 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hildegarde Traywick
Keyword(s):  
Public Schools ◽  
Speech And Language ◽  
Rural County ◽  
Language Program ◽  
The Public ◽  
Madison County

This paper describes the organization and implementation of an effective speech and language program in the public schools of Madison County, Alabama, a rural, sparsely settled area.

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