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WHO Warns Over Illegal Medicines Problem
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The World Health Organisation (WHO) has warned that Latin America remains one of the regions worst affected by illegal medicines such as counterfeits. IMPACT - a new working group of 20 organisations bringing together global agencies including WIPO, the WTO, the OECD, Interpol and the World Bank - reports that the penetration of fake or substandard drugs in some Latin American countries has reached similar levels to Russia or even Sub-Saharan Africa. The illegal sector share has a share of some 40% of total pharmaceutical sales in the former Soviet Union, and this level is considerably higher in many