The war against counterfeit medicine : my story / Dora Nkem Akunyili.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Akunyili, Dora N.

Contributor:

National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (Nigeria)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Drug adulteration--Nigeria.

Drug adulteration.

Pharmaceutical industry--Corrupt practices--Nigeria.

Pharmaceutical industry.

Consumer protection--Nigeria.

Consumer protection.

Product counterfeiting--Nigeria--Prevention.

Product counterfeiting.

Fraud--Nigeria--Prevention.

Fraud.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxxviii, 436 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

Rev.ed.

Place of Publication:

Ibadan, Nigeria : Safari Books, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

There is a general agreement that piracy, counterfeiting, and passing off are unfair practices. However, there is often surreptitious - or even open - sympathy for, say, those who purchase counterfeit designer fashions or the latest technical gadgets. The pirate is even sometimes represented as a daring evil hero. In this book, the author, Director General of Nigeria's National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, presents a unique study of a global phenomenon in which lawbreaking and profiteering prevail at the cost of human health and life - and of the ways in which this can be fought by appropriate legislation, regulation, and enforcement.

Contents:

""Cover ""; ""Title page ""; ""Copyright page ""; ""Dedication ""; ""Foreword ""; ""Preface ""; ""Acknowledgements ""; ""Contents ""; ""Figures and Tables ""; ""Prologue""; ""PART I - HISTORICAL BACKGROUND OF FOOD AND DRUG REGULATION""; ""CHAPTER 1 - EVOLUTION OF DRUG PRODUCTION AND SALE IN NIGERIA""; ""CHAPTER 2 - EVOLUTION OF FOOD AND DRUG REGULATION IN NIGERIA""; ""CHAPTER 3 -NAFDAC MANDATE, STRUCTURE, FUNCTIONS, LAWS AND REGULATIONS""; ""CHAPTER 4 -DEFINITIONS: FAKE / COUNTERFEIT / ADULTERATED / SUBSTANDARD DRUGS, UNWHOLESOME FOOD AND OTHER SUBSTANDARD REGULATED PRODUCTS""

""CHAPTER 5 - GLOBAL TRENDS IN DRUG COUNTERFEITING""; ""PART II - THE NAFDAC I MET""; ""CHAPTER 6 - NAFDAC BEFORE APRIL 2001""; ""PART III - THE WAR AND THE STRATEGIES""; ""CHAPTER 7 - DECLARING THE WAR""; ""CHAPTER 8 - STRATEGY I: RESTRUCTURING AND REORGANISING NAFDAC""; ""CHAPTER 9 - STRATEGY II: OPERATIONAL STRATEGIES""; ""CHAPTER 10 - STRATEGY III: ENGAGING STAKEHOLDERS""; ""CHAPTER 11 - STRATEGY IV: WALKING THE ROUGH ROAD OF DISCIPLINE""; ""CHAPTER 12 - SPECIAL CASES""; ""CHAPTER 13 - FACTORS MILITATING AGAINST EFFECTIVE FOOD AND DRUG REGULATION""

""CHAPTER 14 - INSTITUTIONALISING THE CHANGE""; ""CHAPTER 15 - FOCUSING ON FOOD""; ""PART IV - ACHIEVEMENTS, SUPPORT AND RECOGNITIONS""; ""CHAPTER 16 - GAINS AND ACHIEVEMENTS""; ""CHAPTER 17 - SUPPORT, APPRECIATIONS AND RECOGNITIONS FROM THE NIGERIAN GOVERNMENT, NIGERIANS AND THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY ""; ""PART V - LOOKING INTO THE FUTURE""; ""CHAPTER 18 -FUTURE PLANS/WORK IN PROGRESS RECOMMENDATIONS AND CONCLUSION""; ""ABBREVIATIONS""; ""APPENDICES""; ""INDEX ""; ""Back cover ""

Notes:

"First published 2010"--T.p. verso.

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-311) and index.

Description based on online resource; title from title page (ebrary, viewed September 05, 2013).

ISBN:

9789788431565

9788431569

OCLC:

856870082