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WHO, (A35/A/SR/5) op.cit., p.5. WHO, (A35/A/SR/4) p.6.
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WHO (A35/7) I April 1982, op.cit.
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O\ crseas Development Administration, Statistics of UK Assistance in Developing Countries
in 1980, Table 9.
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Cox, op.cit.
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Ken Temple, Health and Population Division of Overseas Development Administration,
personal communication, 11 February 1982. Total UK multilateral and bilateral health aid
in 1980 was £109 million (12.7% of total aid). Mr. Temple gives a helpful break down: "We
would not wish you to give importance to this figure since prominent within it are the food
aid items, both multilateral and bilateral, which is on the borderline of health aid. But similarly
the 4.4% figure reached by totalling amounts of direct health benefit gives a false impression,
because it leaves out sizeable contributions to the International Development Association and
European Development Fund (some of which must be devoted to health projects) as well as
one-quarter of our bilateral aid. We guess that the true figure lies somewhere between 8%
and 10%."
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Department of Trade and Industry, statistics on UK exports of Medicinal and Pharmaceutical
Products for 12 months ended December 1980. (Complete statistics for 1981 exports are not
available.)
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ODA, 1980 Statistics, op.cit., Table 5, p.20.
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See for example Real Aid: a Strategy for Britain, the report of the UK Independent Committee
on Aid (forthcoming).
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Peggy Burton, SRN, Cheaper by the Million, H.E. Walter, Worthing. 1979.
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Dr. James Burton, Medical Director ECHO, personal communication 25 August, 1981.
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Burton, 25 August, 1981, op. cit.
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Dr. Burton and Bill Davies is interview with the author, 5 August, 1980.
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Burton, 25 August, 1981, op. cit.
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Dr. H.K.M. Hye and Dr. Martin Schweiger, in interview with the author, during
September/October 1980.
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Dr. Tim Lusty, OXFAM's Medical Adviser, in interview with the author.
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Priscilla Annamanthodo, OXFAM, "Medicines in Upper Volta", 1980. (mimeo)
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Prof. G. Peters, "Information and Education about Drugs", in Blum, et.al., op.cit. p.99.
Dr. Andrew Herxheimer, Editor of Drug and Therapeutics Bulletin, in various interviews with
the author.
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These publications include:
Prof. P.F. D'Arcy, personal communication, 12 July 1981. -D'Arcy "Pharmacy in the
Third World - A cause for concern 11" , Pharmacy International, June 1980.
Malcolm Segall and Carol Barker, "Two papers on Pharmaceuticals in Developing
Countries", /DS Communication 119, 1975.
Oscar Gish and Loretta Lee Feller, Planning Pharmaceuticals for Primary Health Care,
Monograph Series, American Public Health Association, International Health Programs,
1979.
Dr. J. S. Yudkin, "The Economics of Pharmaceutical Supply in Tanzania", International
Journal of Health Services, Volume 10, November 3, 1980.
Dr. J.S. Yudkin, "To Plan is to Choose", Dar es Salaam, 1978. (Mimeo).
The Haslemere Group, Who Needs the Drug Companies? a Haslemere Group, War on
Want and Third World First publication, undated.
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