Healthy Skepticism Library item: 2148
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Publication type: report
WHO Department of Essential Drugs & Medicines Policy
Drug Promotion Database
: WHO Department of Essential Drugs & Medicines Policy 2002
http://www.drugpromo.info/
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The impetus for a major project on pharmaceutical promotion originated at the May 1999 meeting of the WHO/public-interest NGO Roundtable on Pharmaceuticals. Unethical and inappropriate drug promotion has been a continuing concern of both NGOs and the WHO. At the 1997 Roundtable on WHO’s Ethical Criteria for Promotion of Medicinal Drugs there was firm agreement that inappropriate promotion of medicinal drugs remains a problem both in developing and developed countries…This database is the first phase of the promotion project…