Heated calls for WHO to drop controversial anticounterfeiting initiative
This article was originally published in Scrip
Executive Summary
Debate is raging over what role the World Health Organisation should have with the secretive International Medical Products Anti-Counterfeiting Taskforce (IMPACT) that it is hosting, with NGOs wanting the WHO to disengage to safeguard its credibility, but the pharmaceutical industry believing that it has a key role to play.