Medicine:BUKO Pharma-Kampagne
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Short description: German pharmaceutical marketing monitor
BUKO Pharma-Kampagne is an independent organization based in Bielefeld, Germany , which watches over the marketing practices of German pharmaceutical companies.
It has gained wider recognition after being described in a bestselling novel, The Constant Gardener by John le Carré. BUKO was mentioned explicitly in the author's afterword as a real counterpart to the novel's fictitious Hippo organisation (also based in Bielefeld, Germany).
BUKO is partially financed by the European Union and mostly by private supporters.
In early 1981 following a conference in Geneva, co-sponsored by the International Organization of Consumers Unions and by BUKO, it set up Health Action International.[1][2][3]
See also
- The Constant Gardener – the movie (2005) by Fernando Meirelles
- World Health Organization Research Ethics Review Committee
References
- ↑ Reich, Michael R. (1987). "Essential drugs: economics and politics in international health". Health Policy 8 (1): 39–57. doi:10.1016/0168-8510(87)90129-1.
- ↑ Fazal, Anwar (1983). "The right pharmaceuticals at the right prices: Consumer perspectives". World Development 11 (3): 265–269. doi:10.1016/0305-750X(83)90035-9. ISSN 0305-750X.
- ↑ Laing R, Waning B, Gray A, Ford N, 't Hoen E (2003). "25 years of the WHO essential medicines lists: progress and challenges.". Lancet 361 (9370): 1723–9. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(03)13375-2. PMID 12767751. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12767751.
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