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WHO Members Show Dismay At Delay On Counterfeit Medicines Group

By Intellectual Property Watch

World Health Organization members today raised strong concerns that a working group they mandated last May to address problems with WHO policy on counterfeit and substandard medicines has yet to be formed - with four months remaining before it must report back to members. One delegation called for a halt to WHO activities on anti-counterfeiting until the outcome of the working group is accepted by member states.

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Full post as published by Intellectual Property Watch on January 19, 2011 (boomark / email).