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59
Ibid.
60
David Beynon, M.Pharm, Drug Cost Comparison, "Improving Pharmaceutical distribution
to the rural areas", 21 February 1980. (mimeo)
61
Dr. Pham NgocThach, First Health Minister of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, quoted
in Health in the Third World: Studiesfrom Vietnam, Dr. Joan K. McMichael (ed.). Spokesman
Books, 1976.
62
Anne Ferguson, "The effects of source of supply of medications on health care services dispensed
in pharmacies in a Salvadoran town", 1980, p.8. (mimeo)
A limited list of products to be sold off prescription in grocers' shops was drawn up in August
1977. (Barker, op.cit.)
63
64
UNCTAD, Technology Policies in the Pharmaceutical Sector in Cuba, 1980, op.cit.
65
Ibid.
66
SCRIP, No. 689, 3 May 1982, p. 11.
67
Yemen Arab Republic Ministry of Health, Fourth A nnual Report on the activities of the Supreme
Boardfor Medicines and Medical Equipment, 1979: "The majority of (import) authorisations
have been given without their being presented to the Supreme Board." (translation from the
Arabic).
68
Government of Guyana, et al., op.cit.
69
UNCTC, 15 July 1981, op.cit., p.14.
70
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UNCTC, "Case Study of India", draft report 9 February 1981, op.cit.
But controls have held the rise in the drug price index below the rate of other sectors
of the chemical industry.
71
UNCTC, 15 July 1981, op.cit., p.16.
72
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73
UNCTC, 15 July 1981, op.cit., p.16.
Study by Constantine Vaitsos quoted by R.J. Barnet and R.E. Muller, Global Reach,
Jonathan Cape, London, 1975, p.158.
Oscar Gish and Loretta Lee Feller, Planning Pharmaceuticals for Primary Health Care,
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No.2, 1979.
74
UNCTAD, Pharmaceutical Policies in Sri Lanka, 1977, op.cit., p.26 and Annexe VIII.
75
Professor Lionel, Faculty of Medicine, Colombo, in interview with David Bull of OXFAM's
Public Affairs Unit, 11 September 1980.
76
UNCTC, 15th July 1981, op.cit., p.16.
77
Peters, op.cit.
78
UNCTC, 15 July 1981, op.cit., p.21.
79
Ibid., p.23.
80
Professor Lionel, op.cit.
81
UNCTC, 15 July 1981, op.cit., p.23.
82
Comision Popular Nacional de Salud, Ministerio de Salud, Dimavi, Jornadas Populares de
Salud, 1981.
83
Professor Carlos Mazargao, quoted by Joseph Hanlon, "Are 300 drugs enough?", New
Scientist, 7 September 1978.
84
UNCTAD, Pharmaceutical Policies in Sri Lanka, 1977, op.cit., p.7.
85
WHO, "Country Information Paper-Sri Lanka", in Drug Policies including Traditional
Medicines in the context of Primary Health Care, op.cit.
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