World Health Organization Country profiles 2016
Human Rights, Minimum Standards and Monitoring at the European and International Levels
A Report on the Application of the HIV Stigma index in the Western highlands and Chimbu provinces
Irresponsible pharmaceutical companies fuel the proliferation of superbugs through supply chain pollution, the European Public Health Alliance (EPHA) reports. The advocacy group uncovered lapses such as dirty production and inadequate waste disposal in the production of antimicrobials in China and I...ndia, which supplies most of the antimicrobials consumed in Europe. In a briefing detailing the pollution, the EPHA urges major purchasers of antibiotics to blacklist irresponsible pharmaceutical companies, demand that the industry clean up its supply chain, introduce greater transparency on the origin of antibiotics, and review and revise procurement policies from an ethics perspective.
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BioMed Central; BMC International Health and Human Rights (2016) 16:20; DOI 10.1186/s12914-016-0094-y
The Lancet Global Health: DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S2214-109X(16)30098-5
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