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Sjaak van der Geest of the Anthropological-Sociological Centre, University of Amsterdam,
"The Efficiency of Inefficiency: Medicine Distribution in South-Cameroon", paper presented
at the Seventh International Conference on Social Science and Medicine, Noordwijkerhout,
22-26 June 1981. (mimeo)

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Mark Bowden, Director, Save the Children Fund, Bangladesh, in interview with the author,
18 September, 1980, and others.

32

"KK exposes drug theft", Zambia Daily Mail, 3 May, 1980.

33

Prof. l.C.Tiwari, DrS.C. MohapatraandDrS.D.Gaur, Department of Preventive and Social
Medicine, Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, "Drug Needs and
Availability for Primary Health Care in a Rural Community in India", paper presented at
Primary Health Care Symposium, 13-16 April 1982 at the Liverpool School of Tropical
Medicine.

34

Ibid.

35

Oscar Gish and Loretta Lee Feller, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Planning
Pharmaceuticals for Primary Health Care: the Supply and Utilization of Drugs in the Third
World, American Public Health Association International Health Programs, Monograph Series
No. 2, 1979.

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Dr. Balasubramanian, UNCTAD, quotedin Provisional Summary Record ofthe Sixth
Meeting Committee A, Thirty-Fifth World Health Assembly, WHO Document
A35/A/SR6, 11 May 1982, p.3.
Dr. Humayun K.M.A. Hye, Director Drugs Administration Bangladesh, Information
on the Drug Sector in Bangladesh in the Context of Primary Health Care, Bangladesh,
May 1979.
Dr. J Albably, Director Yemen Government Supreme Board of Drug Control, in interview
with David Green of Oxfam and James Firebrace, Coordinator, British Volunteer
Programme, August 1980.
UNCTAD, Technology Policies in the Pharmaceutical Sector in Nepal, a study prepared
by the UNCTAD Secretariat in co-operation with Dr. P.N. Suwal, U.N. 1980.

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UK figures from SCRIP, No. 621, August 31, 1981.
UN Commission on Transnational Corporations (UNCTC), Transnational Corporations
in the pharmaceutical industry of developing countries, Report of the Secretariat
E/C. 10/85, UN Economic and Social Council, 15 July 1981, p.22.

38

Drug Policies including Traditional Medicine in the Context of Primary Health Care, op.cit.

39

Bangladesh Health Profile 1977, op.cit., p.75.

40

A. Giovanni, A Questao dos Remedios no Brasil, Polis, Sao Paulo, 1980, quoted by Mike
Muller, The Health of Nations, A North-South Investigation, Faber& Faber, London, 1982,
p.lll.

41

Ann Ferguson, Department of Anthropology, Michigan State University, "The Role of
Pharmaceuticals in the Process of Medicalization in Asuncion, El Salvador", paper delivered
at the 1980 American Anthropological Association meetings held in Washington DC, December
2-7. (mimeo)

42

Ann Ferguson,' 'The effects of source of supply of medications on health care services dispensed
in pharmacies in a Salvadoran town", paper presented at the Central States Anthropology
Society 56th Annual Meeting, Ann Arbor, Michigan 9-12 April 1980. (mimeo)

43

van der Geest, op.cit., p. 13.

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