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4

Ibid.

5

Information on Gonoshasthaya Kendra Pharmaceuticals: as note (1). Also:
Dr Zafrullah Chowdhury and Susanne Chowdhury, "Essential Drugs for the Poor: Myth
and Reality in Bangladesh", paper delivered at the Primary Health Care Symposium,
Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, 13-16 April 1982. (mimeo)
OXFAM Project Write-up BD 20c, "Gonoshasthaya Pharmaceuticals Ltd."
NOVIB, Report on proposal to set up Gonoshasthaya Pharmaceuticals: "Gegevens over
de te medefinancieren aktiviteiten", 21 August 1979.
Dr. Zafrullah Chowdhury, letter to The Lancet, 7 November 1981.
Barry Newman, Wall Street Journal, July 3 1981.
David Newell, OXFAM Field Director, "1980-81 Bangladesh and Burma Annual Report".
(mimeo)

6

"Gonoshasthaya Pharmaceuticals" Newsletter, op.cit., p.3.

7

Initial funding included:
NOVIB (Holland) US $
Christian Aid
Bangladesh Shilpa Bank i
GK Trust and others
'

2.62m
0.16m

(Source Gonoshasthaya Pharmaceuticals Newsletter, op.cit.)
8

Dr. Zafrullah Chowdhury, in interview with author, April 1982.

9

"Gonoshasthaya Pharmaceuticals" Newsletter, op.cit., p.5.

10

Chowdhury and Chowdhury, 1982, op.cit., p. 11.

11

Ibid., p.12

12

Ibid.

13
14

In Touch, VHSS Newsletter, 1980.
l.C. Tiwari.S.C.MohapatraandS.D. Gaur, Department of Preventive and Social Medicine
Banaras Hindu University, "Drug Needs and Availability for Primary Health Care in a Rural
Community in India", paper presented at Primary Health Care Symposium, Liverpool School
of Tropical Medicine, 13-16 April 1982, p.5.

15

VHAI, "Our concern about drugs", 1981, p . l . (mimeo)

16

Dr. Premchandran John of the Deenabandbu Medical Mission, in interview with David Bull
of OXFAM, 14 September 1980.

17

VHAI, op.cit.

18

Selim Ahmed, VHSS, Dacca, in interview with the author, 24 September 1980.

19

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Dr. Sathya Mala and S. Srinivasan of VHAI, in interview with the author, Delhi, 21
October 1981.
S. Srinivasan, personal communication, 15 July, 1981.

20

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UNCTAD, Technology Policies and the Pharmaceutical
sector in Nepal,
(UNCTAD/TT/34) United Nations 1980.
Dr. Andrew Cassels, Medical Director Britain Nepal Medical Trust, "Drug Supply in
Rural Nepal: The Bhojpur Drug Scheme", (mimeo (1982))
OXFAM Project write-up "Nepal 5", March 1982. (mimeo)

21

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' 'The Britain-Nepal Medical Trust Quarterly Report", Asoj-Mangsir 2037, mid-September
to mid-December 1980.
UNCTAD, 1980, op.cit., and Cassels, op.cit.

22

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"The Britain Nepal Medical Trust Quarterly Report", op.cit.
Dr. Don Patterson, "A Scheme for the purchase and distribution of drugs in a developing

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