E-DRUG: New York Times on donations to Kosovo region

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E-DRUG: New York Times on donations to Kosovo region
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Dear e-druggers,

Today (June 29) an article in the New York Times (NYT) is published
under the title 'Among U.S. Donations, Tons of Worthless Drugs'. The
author, Reed Abelson, has done quite some research into practices and
ethics of donations of medical aid to the Kosovo region and in the past.
The articles describes examples of current inappropriate donations to
Albania and FYROM and discusses critically these practices by American
donor agencies and industries. I would like to invite our American
e-druggers to reply to this message and the article and to propose steps
of action.

Best greetings,
Mark Raijmakers
mark.raijmakers@wemos.nl

P.S. A small reminder of the press release of the European expert
seminar on appropriate drug donations (June 11 and 12) at:
http://www.wemos.nl/news/news.htm

P.P.S. The NYT article is announced on the Web with the following text:

  June 29, 1999

  New York Times

  Among U.S. Donations, Tons of
  Worthless Drugs

  By REED ABELSON

  Relief workers in Kosovo desperate for
  syringes, penicillin and insulin found many of the
  hundreds of boxes of medical donations instead
  contained Chap Stick, Preparation H and
  anti-smoking inhalers.

This NYT-article can be found on the Internet at:
http://www.nytimes.com/library/world/europe/062999kosovo-drugs.html

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Wemos Foundation
P.O. Box 1693
1000 BR Amsterdam - The Netherlands
Tel.+31-20-4.688.388 / fax 4.686.008
http://www.wemos.nl
* NEW Web-site on drug donations
http://www.drugdonations.org (under construction)

[Moderators Comment The article will only be available for 24 hours. So if
you have Web access read the article today. I have applied to the NY Times
for copyright clearance to circulate the article to E-Drug subscribers
Richard Laing Co-Moderator]

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