Wellcome Trust-Mahosot Hospital-Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Collaboration, Microbiology Laboratory, Mahosot Hospital, Vientiane, Lao PDR.
PLoS Med. 2011 Dec;8(12):e1001139. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001139. Epub 2011 Dec 6.
Paul Newton and colleagues argue that public health, and not intellectual property or trade issues, should be the prime consideration in defining and combating counterfeit medicines, and that the World Health Organization (WHO) should take a more prominent role.
保罗·牛顿(Paul Newton)等人认为,在界定和打击假药时,应主要考虑公共卫生问题,而不是知识产权或贸易问题,世界卫生组织(WHO)应发挥更突出的作用。