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Keeping It Real - protecting the world's poor from fake drugs
 IPN has launched a new paper on how the tackle the growing scourge of fake medicines in the world's least developed countries.
Revealing that approximately 700,000 people die annually from fake malaria and tuberculosis drugs alone, Keeping it Real examines the causes and possible solutions to the problem.
Click here for the press release.
Click here for the full paper: (opens PDF)
 Click here for the Spanish translation (opens PDF) and here for the Spanish press release.
IPN, in collaboration with the Atlas Economic Research Foundation, launched the Freedom to Trade campaign and website on Wednesday, 1 April.
Over 1000 economists, dignitaries and academics have signed onto our petition in support of free trade.
SIGN the free trade petition
VISIT our new website: www.freedomtotrade.org |
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