RT Article
T1 Fake drugs: health, wealth and regulation in Nigeria
JF Capitalism and economic crime in Africa
SP 110
OP 126
A1 Klantschnig, Gernot 1977-
A2 Huang, Chieh
LA English
YR 2024
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1918582270
AB In recent years, international organisations have warned of the lethal trade in fake drugs particularly in Africa. This article assesses how and why fake pharmaceuticals have become a problem in Nigeria and how successful the state has been at regulating it, based on archival, official and interview data. While the article shows that the early roots of this trade can be found in colonial times, its expansion and growing policy concern were driven by crises in the Nigerian pharmaceutical industry and the healthcare system in the 1980s. In contrast to dominant explanations, the authors argue that the rise of fake drugs in Nigeria was closely linked to these national crises and related global trends towards market liberalisation and the commodification of health. In this unfavourable context, policies to regulate fake drugs remained limited as they only addressed the symptoms of a more fundamental political and economic problem: the shift from public health towards private wealth and profit-making.
NO Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 124-126
SN 9781032788272