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...Hans Hogerzeil, of the WHO's Action Program on Essential Drugs, says the problem is widespread: 45% of donations received in 1994 by the WHO office in Zagreb, for instance, were either worthless or expired. In Sudan aid workers have received contact-lens solution and appetite stimulants--a bizarre contribution to a country experiencing famine. Health workers in Rwanda are still sorting through crates of "odorless" garlic pills, ginseng extract and Tums antacids delivered during the war. A WHO pharmacist working in the Balkans says, "Staff members have risked their lives under sniper fire trying to identify medications that turn...
...gifts to medications that are included in essential-drug lists and that would not expire for at least 12 months. Some in the U.S. pharmaceutical industry are lobbying for exceptions. A consultant has warned ominously that the guidelines might force all drug donations from the U.S. to cease. But Hogerzeil expects a compromise to be adopted by the WHO at a meeting of U.N. agencies this month. "Bona fide donations will still be permitted," he says. If he is right, then countries suffering from natural and man-made disaster should continue to receive drugs, but only those that clearly...
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