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country : Nepal", paper delivered at Primary Health Care Symposium, Liverpool School
of Tropical Medicine, 13-16 April 1982.
23

"The Britain Nepal Medical Trust Quarterly Report", op.cit.

24

Cassels, op. cit., p.10.

25

Ibid., p.9.

26

Ibid., pp.1-8.

27

Ibid., p.11.

28

David Werner, Director, Project Piaxtla, personal communication, 20 July 1981.

29

David Werner and Bill Bower, Helping Health Workers Learn, a book of methods, aids and
ideas for instructors at the village level, Hesperian Foundation, Palo Alto, California, 1982,
pp.27.14-27.18.

CHAPTER 9
1

Dr.V.Fattorusso, then Director of the Division of Prophylactic, Diagnostic and Therepeutic
Substances, WHO, "Essential Drugs for the Third World", World Health, May 1981, WHO,
p.5.

2

WHO, "National Policies and Practices in Regard to Medicinal Products;
and Related International Problems", Background Document (A31/Technical Discussions/1)6
March 1978,p.5: "In spite of the general recognition that medicinal products should be viewed
as essential tools for health care and for the improvement of the quality of life, it is not uncommon
to find that drug policies are mainly directed towards industrial and trade development and
sometimes contradictory policies exist independently and are implemented in different sectors
of the administration."

3

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4

Fattorusso, op.cit., p.5.

5

For example, Jay J. Kingham, US Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association, "Preliminary
Observations on UNCTC Draft Summary Report 'Transnational Corporations in the
Pharmaceutical Industry of Developing Countries ' " , 23 February 1981,p.3.
See also: Chapter 10.

6

Sjaak van der Geest, 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,p.12.

7

WHO, "Action Programme on Essential Drugs", Report by the Executive Board Ad Hoc
Committee on Drugs Policies on behalf of the Executive Board, (A35/7), Thirty-Fifth World
Health Assembly, 1 April 1982.

8

David Werner, personal communication, 20 July 1981.

9

Adrian Moyes, Oxfam Public Affairs Unit, "Don't Compare us with India" -A visit to China,
September 1980. (mimeo) The position of the communes may have changed with more recent
political changes.

10

Sheila Hillier, London Hospital Medical College, talk given at Politics of Health Group meeting,
London, 25 April 1981.

11

David G. Beynon, Pharmaceutical Supply Officer, Department of Health, Provincial Medical
Store, Madang Province, personal communication, 4 July 1980.

David Taylor, Medicines, Health and the Poor World, Office of Health Economics, May
1982, pp.22-23.
Dr.H.Mahler, "The meaning of'Health for all by the year 2000' ", World Health Forum,
2(1), WHO, 1981, pp.5-22.

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