The most dangerous counterfeit products are counterfeit medical products, such as counterfeit drugs and vaccines. In 2006, the WHO started a taskforce to fight against the illegal trade of counterfeit medical products because every year thousands of people die due to the use of these products. They want to help people become more familiar with the growing market of counterfeit medicines and the health risks they cause. The taskforce tries to help governments to stop the corruption in the sections of the police charged with the fight against counterfeit medicines. They also ask the drug manufactures to make their products more complicated. It seems that now counterfeit drugs are really easy to fake. In developing countries, one in four packets of medicine you buy in street markets could be fake. When you look at some countries in Africa, the drugs are sold between the fruit and the vegetables on the large open-air markets. There, the major problem is that they just don’t have another place to buy these products for the price they can afford.
(http://www.scielosp.org/scielo.php?pid=S0042-96862006000900005&script=sci_arttext&tlng=en)
Ivo De Clercq
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