Klantschnig, Gernot orcid.org/0000-0003-2693-8227 and Huang, Chieh (2018) Fake Drugs: Health, Wealth and Regulation in Nigeria. Review of African Political Economy. ISSN 1740-1720
Abstract
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 we show 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, we 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.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2018 ROAPE Publications Ltd. This is an author-produced version of the published paper. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher’s self-archiving policy. Further copying may not be permitted; contact the publisher for details. |
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Institution: | The University of York |
Academic Units: | The University of York > Faculty of Social Sciences (York) > Social Policy and Social Work (York) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number THE BRITISH ACADEMY UNSPECIFIED |
Depositing User: | Pure (York) |
Date Deposited: | 30 Jul 2018 14:20 |
Last Modified: | 06 Feb 2025 00:08 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1080/03056244.2018.1536975 |
Status: | Published online |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/03056244.2018.1536975 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:133936 |
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