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Letter from Dr. Luise Parsons, Medical Officer, Immanuel Hospital, Enga Province,
Papua New Guinea to Ritchie Cogan, BBC Producer, London, 7 June 1979.
Letter from Dr. J. Moir, Medical Officer, rural health centre, Madang Province, Papua
New Guinea to Ritchie Cogan, BBC, 11 July 1979.
Dr. Carol Barker,'' Drugs Policy in Mozambique'', paper delivered at the Primary Health
Care Symposium, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, 13-16 April 1982. (mimeo)
Dr. Carol Barker, "Pharmaceuticals Policy", draft of unpublished chapter, undated.

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15

Ibid.
WHO, The Selection of Essential Drugs, Report of a WHO Expert Committee, Technical
Report Series 615, WHO, Geneva, 1977.

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UNCTAD, Case Studies in transfer of technology: Pharmaceutical Policies in Sri Lanka, study
prepared by Dr. Senaka Bibile, Professor of Pharmacology University of Sri Lanka and
Chairman of the State Pharmaceuticals Corporation, in cooperation with the UNCTAD
Secretariat, (TD/B/C.6/21), United Nations, 27 June 1977,p.6.

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WHO, 1982 (A35/7), op.cit., p 30.
Barker, op.cit., p . l .

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Barker, 1982, op.cit., p.3.

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Pascale Brudon, "L'Industrie Pharmaceutique Suisse dans les pays Sous Developpes",
(Memoire presente pour le diplome de recherche en etudes de developpement), Institut
Universitaire D'Etudes de Developpment Geneva, 1981, p.209.

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Dr. Braga quoted in Provisional Summary Record of the Fifth Meeting of Committee A, Thirty
Fifth World Health Assembly (A35/A/SR/5) 10 May 1982, p.7.

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United Nations Centre for Transnational Corporations (UNCTC)

Transnational

Corporations and the Pharmaceutical Industry, United Nations, New York, 1979, p.87.
UNCTC, "Case Study on Brazil", draft report, 9 February 1981.
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Ibid.
Government of Guyana, in collaboration with UNCTAD, UNDTCD, UNIDO, WHO,
Pharmaceuticals in the Developing World, Policieson Drugs, Trade and Production, Volume
I General Report (related to UNDP Project I NT/009/A/01/99 "Economic and Technical
Cooperation Among Developing Countries in the Pharmaceutical Sector"), June 1979, p. 11
and p.77. Afghanistan passed its Generic Drug Law in 1976, before the political changes in 1980.

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UNCTAD, 1977 (TD/B/C.6/21), op.cit.

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Barker, 1982, op.cit.
- WHO, "Drug Policy and Management in Bangladesh", Country Information Paper for
Inter-Consultative Meeting on Drug Policies and Management, (ICP/DPM/001) New Delhi,
13-16 October 1980.
UNCTAD, 1977, (TD/B/C. 6/21) op.cit.
Professor G. Peters, University of Lausanne, "Rapport Mission au Mozambique du 8
au 19octobre 1980".

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Proposed Essential Drug List for Zimbabwe, Ministry of Health, Harare, 1981.

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Professor Wilfred Lionel (University of Colombo) and Dr. Andrew Herxheimer (Senior
Lecturer in Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Charing Cross Hospital Medical
School), "Coherent Policies on Drugs", in Blum, Herxheimer, Stenzl and Woodcock
(ed), Pharmaceuticals and Health Policy, 1981, p.248.
Peters, op.cit.
Joseph Hanlon, "Are 300 drugs enough?" New Scientist, 1 September 1978.

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